Rhondda Cynon Taf councillors call to change bin collection plan

If it proceeds, residents will have the option to keep their wheelie bins to store black bags, with a maximum of three to be put out for collection at the kerbside every three weeks.

The cabinet also want to adjust the current winter green waste booking service to “improve operational efficiency” and keep the council’s waste management strategy under review.

The changes would also see collections every three weeks from such buildings as schools and businesses.

The council said the changes would mean “improved recycling rates so that we hit the 70% Welsh government target” and its waste collection fleet would be more efficient, “including the use of other smaller vehicles to collect black bags if larger collection lorries are not able to access a street due to parked cars”.

In addition, the council said it would remove “bins as obstructions in between collections from pavements”, and “residents will not have to wheel or carry wheelie bins through their homes or up and down garden steps”.