Since 3 October 2022, South Hams District Council has been operating the waste and recycling services in-house.
Between Monday 25 September and Friday 27 October, those households still on kerbside collections using the blue and clear sacks for recycling, should receive a delivery of: 2 green recycling boxes with lids; a reusable white recycling sac; and large (kerbside) and small (kitchen) food waste caddies plus labels and explanatory information. The boxes and sac will replace the blue and clear recycling sacks.
This is in preparation for moving to the ‘Devon Aligned Service’, which will conform to the Environment Act 2021, which requires all collection authorities, such as SHDC to collect the following materials: Glass; Paper; Card; Metal; Plastic; and Food waste (the latter specified as weekly).
You should store the boxes away until the new arrangements start from Monday 20th November 2023.
This will mean that, in addition to the fortnightly ‘Grey Bin’ collection of non-recyclable refuse (and fortnightly Brown Bin green waste collection if you have paid a subscription for it), there will be a weekly collection of paper, card, plastics, metal tins and glass for recycling, and a weekly food waste collection. If you have NOT yet received a new set of containers, or are missing food waste caddies, please let SHDC know via https://waste.southhams.gov.uk/containerorder.
See: https://southhams.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling and https://www.southhams.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling.