Bin Strike

[Cookham Webmaster]

Windsor and Maidenhead Council (RBWM) has announced that they expect strike action to go ahead today (Wednesday, August 31). Waste collectors are set to strike and whilst the council says that it should be able to collect rubbish and food waste as normal, recycling collections are set to be disrupted.

Garden waste collections will also be suspended during strike action and Stafferton Way Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Maidenhead will be closed. This is so focus can be pulled onto bin collections.

Strikes are taking place as members of the GMB Union are calling for a pay increase. Due to the action, RBWM will only be able to provide half of the normal recycling collections that it usually does.

Roads in Windsor, Maidenhead, Datchet, Wraysbury, and Old Windsor will be affected. The council has said that if your recycling is not collected today, then it will be collected next week as scheduled.

The council has also said that if your recycling is usually collected on a Tuesday but you can't be visited due to strike action then you must put out your bin for next Tuesday. Due to the Bank Holiday weekend, collections this week are being made a day later than normal.

This means that if your bins usually go out on Tuesday, they should go out on Wednesday this week instead. This is where there could be an issue, however, as industrial action is set for Wednesday, August 31, so if your bins are not collected on this day, then you'll need to put them out next Tuesday instead.

[Cookham Webmaster]

Update on waste collections from RBWM

We are pleased to advise that a resolution has been reached between waste contractor Serco and the GMB union and that further industrial action by waste collection operatives in the union has been suspended.

However, there have been significant disruption and delays due to today’s action which has meant we have been unable to complete any of the refuse, recycling and food waste collections that were planned.

What you need to do
 
From tomorrow (Thursday 1 September) refuse, recycling and food waste collections will resume as normal. Please remember that because of the Bank Holiday, collections are still a day later than usual and changes to collection days are available on our Holiday waste collection dates webpage
For those whose bins were due to be collected today (Wednesday 31 August), these won’t have been collected so please leave these out and we will collect these by the end of Sunday. However, please do not put out your recycling bin for collection if you live in one of the streets listed on our waste and recycling crew strike webpage
If you do live in one of these streets, still put out your refuse and food waste, but please don’t put out your recycling bin until Tuesday 6 September – your regular collection day – and we will collect it then.

What you need to know

The Stafferton Way Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Maidenhead will reopen tomorrow as normal
Garden waste collections will remain suspended until the end of this Friday to enable us to catch up on other collections. However, garden waste subscriptions will be extended to cover the time when collections are suspended
Please ensure all your waste and recycling is contained within your bins.

Thank you for your ongoing patience.