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Refuse & Recycling
All households (excluding those with communal collection arrangements and those who are on black sack refuse collections) now receive separate food waste collections.
MBC accept all cooked and uncooked food waste including meat, fish and bones. The food waste is collected every week on your current collection day in a small foodwaste bin (23L) with a lockable lid.
With a weekly collection of food waste, MBC advise there is no need to collect theremainder of your waste so often, so the grey wheeled rubbish bins are collected fortnightly.
The food waste is taken to a local composting facility where it is treated at high temperatures to kill any bacteria, it is then used on farmer’s fields as a soil improver to grow new crops.
External funding has been identified which means that the changes will be cost neutral to the council and by introducing weekly food waste collections and fortnightly refuse collections.
Collection Day: MONDAY
Week 1: Food Waste/Garden Waste/General Refuse
Week 2: Food Waste/RecycIing
Local Recycling Sites:
Co-op Petrol Station East Peckham: Glass, Paper, Textiles, CDs and Books
Paddock Wood Commercial Road: Glass, Paper, Textiles, Cans and Card
Household Waste Recycling Centres:
Burial Ground Lane, Tovil, Maidstone. ME15 6RJ.
North Farm, Longfield Road, Tunbridge Wells. TN2 3UY
Both facilities are open Monday to Saturday 8am – 4.30pm, Sunday and Bank Holidays: 9am – 4pm.
Further details can be found on the MBC website: www.maidstone.gov.uk