Waste collection backlog update

Latest waste service update from York Council -Wednesday 3 June

We were unable to collect all household waste from Ashley Park Avenue and Hazel Garth due to capacity issues.

We’ll return for these collections on Thursday 4 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect recycling from parts of Dringhouses and Acomb due to current restrictions due to coronavirus.

We’ll return for these collections on Thursday 4 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of streets in the following areas due to capacity issues:

  • Holly Bank
  • Holgate
  • Acomb
  • Fossway
  • Heworth Green
  • Muncaster
  • Bell Farm
  • Huntington South

We will attempt to collect missed garden waste, including missed waste from Osbaldwick and Woodthorpe by Thursday 4 June, but may not be able to revisit until later in the week. Please leave your green bin out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.

Missed bin emptying – latest from City of York Council

The Council has published its Tuesday update on missed bin emptying and recycling collections.

It reveals failings across all types of waste collection and neighbourhoods. It is no longer promising to empty bins on the next day, but is asking residnts to continue to leave their bins out.

Although COVID social distancing requirements have influenced recycling collection performance the Council blames “capacity issues” for most of the delays.

As the first collection of garden waste has been completed, the expectation was that the second lift would have been smaller. However, it maybe that residents, who stored green waste in line with Council instructions during the lock-down period, are now filling up the bins again.

It is impossible to judge whether volume is an issue unless the Council starts to publish again the tonnage of waste – by category – that it is dealing with each week.

The Councils management must provide more information on waste management including the level of demand for booking spaces at the household waste sites and the level of use of the bulky waste removal service.

Waste service reliability was already problematic before the Coronavirus crisis hit, with an unprecedented level of failed collections during the later part of 2019.

Residents deserve to know when they can expect a reliable service to be restored?

Green bin emptying and recycling collection backlog growing

The Council has not updated their web site to say how collections went today (Tuesday). However there are large numbers of full green bins still on the streets in the Foxwood area at least.

Last nights report from the Council suggests that it is still pushing a bow wave of un-emptied green bins and recycling boxes forward from one day to the next.

This is Mondays progress report from the Council.

Latest waste service update Monday 25 May

All scheduled household waste collections have been made.

We were unable to collect recycling waste from Copmanthorpe, Acaster Malbis, Woodthorpe and Foxwood as a result of restrictions on operations due to coronavirus.

We were able to return for all outstanding recycling waste, except for waste from Haxby, Rawcliffe and Clifton.

We’ll attempt to collect this recycling on Tuesday 2 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We’ve been unable to collect garden waste from a number of properties in the following areas due to capacity issues:

  • Acaster Malbis
  • Copmanthorpe
  • Wheldrake
  • Deighton
  • Dringhouses
  • Woodthorpe

We were able to return for all outstanding garden waste, except for waste from Clifton Moor and Clifton.

We will attempt to collect missed garden waste on Tuesday 2 June, but may not be able to revisit until later in the week. Please leave greens bin out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.

Latest waste service update

Council will be working today (Saturday) to ease collection backlog.
Continuing on Monday

“All scheduled household waste collections have been made, including waste from Wigginton, Haxby and Strensall.

We were unable to collect recycling from a number of areas due to operational restrictions to do with Covid-19.

  • Strensall
  • Haxby
  • Clifton
  • Rawcliffe

This recycling will be collected on Saturday 30 May or Monday 1 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of terraced areas due to the large amount to be collected and capacity issues.

  • Leeman Road
  • Huntington
  • Earswick
  • Haxby
  • Clifton
  • Skelton
  • Hessay
  • Rufforth
  • Clifton Moor

This recycling will be collected on Saturday 30 May or Monday 1 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

All outstanding garden waste and recycling waste from earlier in the week has been collected”.

Latest waste service update Thursday 28 May

More bad news on refuse collection in York. There are delays in collecting recycling, emptying green bins and removing some household waste across significant parts of the City

Some recycling has been out on the streets for 3 days now.

The Council says that it will work through today and tomorrow (Saturday) to clear the backlog.

The Council has also been urged to provide an update on the capacity and use of its bulky waste removal service which was restarted last week.

Similar information about the availability of “booking slots” at household waste sites like Hazel Court might help to reduce demands on the collection service.

The Council has said,

Household waste

“We were unable to collect household waste from small areas of Haxby, Wigginton and Strensall.

This household waste will be collected on Friday 29 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

Recycling

We were unable to collect recycling from Rufforth, Clifton and Huntington due to operational restrictions to do with Covid-19.

We’ve been unable to return for recycling collections from Tuesday 26 May and Wednesday 27 May.

All this recycling waste will be collected on Friday 29 May or Saturday 30 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

Garden Waste

We were unable to collect garden waste from from Haxby, Earswick and Huntington due to the large amounts being collected.

This garden waste will be collected on Friday 29 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We’ve been unable to return to St Aldred’s Mews due to access issues and will return as soon as we are able. We’ve also been unable to return for garden waste collections from Wednesday 27 May. We’re returning for this waste in Acomb and Heworth on Thursday evening”

Recycling and green waste collection backlog

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The York Council is struggling ot deal with the volume of recycling and green waste being presented. In some areas this has been on the streets for over 48 hours. Household waste collection was up to date as of the end of work yesterday (Wednesday).

We think it is time for them to give more details of the issues that they face, the remedies being applied and the likely date when collections are expected to return to normal.

This is the update that they published today.

Latest waste service update – Wednesday 28 May

All household waste has been collected as scheduled.

We were also able to collect all outstanding household waste from Tuesday 26 May.

We were unable to collect recycling from a number of properties in the following areas due to operating under coronavirus restrictions:

  • Earswick
  • Heworth
  • Heworth Without
  • Hull Road

We were unable to collect all outstanding recycling waste from Tuesday 26 May.

Missed recycling collections from 26 and 27 May will now be collected on Thursday 28 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of streets in the following areas due to capacity issues:

  • Acomb
  • Heworth
  • Heworth Without
  • Stockton-on-Forest

We will attempt to collect missed garden waste by Thursday 28 May, but may not be able to revisit until later in the week. Please leave greens bin out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.

We were able to collect all outstanding garden waste from Tuesday 26 May.

More waste collection delays in York

The York Council has run into further problems today with household waste, recycling and green bin emptying. There were issues on both sides of the City

Latest waste service update -Tuesday 26 May

We were unable to collect household waste from some areas in Dunnington due to capacity issues.

This household waste will be collected on Wednesday 27 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We have been unable to collect recycling waste from a number of properties due to service levels.

Our crews are still out collecting and a further update regarding recycling collections for 26 May will be issued tomorrow.

We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of properties in the following areas due to capacity issues:

  • Chapelfields
  • Foxwood
  • Tang Hall

We’ll attempt to collect missed garden waste by Wednesday 27 May, but may not be able to revisit until later in the week. Please leave greens bin out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.

We have been able to recollect all outstanding garden waste from Monday 25 May.

Previous waste service updates – Monday 25 May

All scheduled household waste collections have been made.

We were unable to collect recycling waste from a number of properties in Fulford as a result of restrictions on operations due to coronavirus.

We’ll attempt to collect this recycling on Tuesday 26 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We’ve been unable to collect garden waste from a number of properties in the following areas due to capacity issues:

  • Badger Hill
  • Heslington

We will attempt to collect missed garden waste on Tuesday 26 May, but may not be able to revisit until later in the week. Please leave greens bin out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.

Council aiming to clear garden waste and recycling collection backlog today (Saturday)

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The Council says that it will work today to try to clear the backlog of waste collection in the City.

The backlog has developed due to “social distancing” issues while garden waste volumes have been very high following the recent suspension of collections.

The Council web site says, “

Latest waste service update

Friday 15 May

All scheduled household waste collections have been made, including outstanding collections from Thursday 21 May.

We were unable to collect recycling from a number of areas due to operational restrictions to do with Covid-19.

  • Strensall
  • New Earswick
  • Haxby
  • Wigginton
  • Clifton
  • Rawcliffe
  • Nether Poppleton
  • Upper Poppleton
  • Guildhall

This recycling  will be collected on Saturday 23 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of areas due to the large amount to be collected and capacity issues.

  • Acomb
  • Poppleton
  • Clifton Without
  • Rawcliffe

We’ll attempt to return for these collections as follows:

  • Poppleton on the evening of Friday 22 May or Saturday 23 May
  • Acomb, Clifton Without and Rawcliffe on Saturday 23 May

Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

All outstanding garden waste from Thursday 21 May has been collected”.

Waste collection update

The Council are struggling to catch up wiht householdwaste, reccyling and green bin emptying in various aprts of the City. Thye workede on into teh eveing yesterday and promise to continue into Satuirday if necessasry. Their latest update says,

“Latest waste service update
Thursday 21 May

We were unable to collect household waste from Old Orchard, Cherry Tree Lane, and Holly Tree Lane in Haxby due to a vehicle breakdown

This household waste will be collected on Friday 22 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect recycling from a number of areas due to operational restrictions to do with Covid-19.

  • Strensall
  • New Earswick
  • Haxby
  • Wigginton

This recycling waste will be collected on Friday 22 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of areas due to the large amount to be collected and capacity issues.

  • Strensall
  • New Earswick
  • Haxby
  • Wigginton

This garden waste will be collected on Friday 22 May. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.

We were able to return and collect missed waste from Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 May”.

More waste collection issues hit west York

It looks like the Council has caught up with the collection of domestic waste at least in the Westfield area today.

Unfortunately the same can’t be said for commercial waste with some problems reported weeks ago still to be resolved.

Council bins, to rear of Front Street, filled to overflowing
Not just Council bins full. These BIFFA bins are also behind Front Street. Bin that was subject to an arson attack was reported some weeks ago.