Recycling Rubbish

Official Adoptee: Friends of All Saints

MBC's contractors collect unrecyclable rubbish bins and recyclable materials on alternate fortnights (see http://www.maidstone.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/recycling,_rubbish_and_waste.aspx for further information and details of your collection day.  Although you can put glass in your nonrecyclable rubbish (which is incinerated and then collected for use in roadstones) you can still take glass bottles and jars to the Bell Lane for recycling into higher-grade glass items.

 

 

Private landowners, residents and businesses can now apply to MBC for a graffiti removal service. Enquiries should be made to MBC Cleansing Call Centre on 01622 602162.

 

A message from Maidstone Borough Council's Civic Wardens:
The Council is very concerned about our streets and open spaces. We want to make sure your street is clean and free of dog mess, so as to give you a better quality of life.
We have received a number of requests from local residents asking the 'Hit Squad' to come and clean your street of dog mess. Dog mess is unsightly and a health risk, especially to children. If caught not cleaning up, the dog owner can face a fixed penalty fine on the spot or, if prosecuted, a hefty fine of up to £2,500. It also wastes a great deal of our resources (and your Council Tax) clearing up all this mess.
We would like to work together with you in solving this problem. What we propose to do:
* Ask that dog owners clean up after their dogs. When available there are free plastic bags at the council reception points or just use old plastic bags you have - pop it in a doggie bin or take it home for disposal.
* Ask residents to contact the Hit Squad on 01622 602162 if your street needs cleaning.
* Ask residents to report any dog owner who doesn't clean up after their dog - by phoning the Civic Wardens on 01622 602117. They will step up their patrols, put up signs and visit any owner who is breaching the law.
* If there is a persistent problem we will bring in mobile CCTV cameras to catch the offenders.
It is generally only a few dog owners who flout the law and don't clean up. If you're one of these think again, we intend to use every power open to us to clean up our environment for you, your children and your neighbours.

Garden Waste - Compostable garden waste will only be collected by MBC if bagged in the new compostable white MBC Garden Sacks or MBC bin hired for this purposes.  MBC Garden sacks are available from Henhurst Farm Shop, Pinnock Lane, TN12 0HD, Paxman Services (UK) Ltd at Unit 3, Larkstore Park, Lodge Road, TN12 0QY or Spuds 'n' Buds, High Street, at £3.50 per roll of 5.  If you use more than 10 rolls of garden sacks per year and you have room for an additional bin, it may be more cost-effective to hire a bin from MBC (Tel 01622 601612).  Leave the white sacks beside your household waste bin on your fortnightly collection day (or put vegetation in the blue-lidded or yellow striped wheelie bin hired from MBC for this purpose).

Please do not overload MBC Garden Sacks - spare a thought for the collectors having to pick them up! Please do not put turf, foil, stones, animal waste or bedding, large branches, logs, tree stumps or kitchen scraps in the MBC Garden Sacks.  Contact MBC on 01622 602162 or send an email via their website at http://www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk.  Collection details are available at http://www.maidstone.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/recycling,_rubbish_and_waste.aspx  

Food Waste - This is collected weekly by MBC and food waste should be placed in the black with orange lidded caddy and put out at the front boundary of your property on collection day.  Compostable sacks for the grey kitchen caddies are now available to purchase from the Henhurst Farm Shop, Pinnock Lane, TN12 0HD and Paxman Services (UK) Ltd at Unit 3 Larkstore Park, Lodge Road. TN12 0QY.

 

 

Visit the MBC website at http://www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk for comprehensive and up to date information.

Standard 1-6 items £20, 7-12 items £30, and standard 13-18 items £45. Items must be less than 6ft long and lifted safely by 2 operatives.

Items NOT ACCEPTABLE include: Car parts, machinery, builders rubble, glass including mirrors, plasterboard & hazardous waste (asbestos, paint, chemicals, sharps, oils etc)