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Council launches popular free bulky waste collection scheme

Date Posted: 4:12 PM on Mon, 30 November 2020 Text explaining offer and a lorry with an old chair

Gedling Borough Council is launching its popular free bulky waste collection scheme this week.

The council is offering a free collection of large household items to all residents, subject to availability and on a first come, first served basis from January until February but residents can book their slots from 1 December.

Residents can book for up to six large items such as chairs, tables, washing machines and televisions to be collected free of charge, between 11 January 2021 through to 26 February 2021.

Although the free collections themselves begin next year, bookings open up on December 1 2020, with spaces limited per area. Based on previous years, the scheme is expected to be extremely popular with residents as they make the most of the usually chargeable service.

Items must be left outside the properties for a minimum of 72 hours prior to the collection date in line with Covid-19 safety regulations.

To take advantage of this limited offer, residents need to visit www.gedling.gov.uk/bulkywaste enter their address and details of the items to be collected. The system will then tell them when the next free collection is available.   

The aim of the free service is to reduce fly tipping and to allow residents the opportunity to get rid of unwanted large items, which would normally be chargeable.

Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Councillor John Clarke said;

“I’m pleased to announce that we are again able to offer this free bulky waste collection service, something which is always a popular with residents and taken up all across the borough.

Many families will be making space in their homes for new items this Christmas, this scheme helps people get rid of unwanted older items and helps reduce fly tipping. We do advise that people book now as the slots fill very quickly and are on a first come, first served basis.

Despite the financial difficulties the council is facing with the ongoing pandemic, we wanted to ensure that we still continued to run the free bulky waste scheme this winter, something I’m sure many of our residents will be happy to see return.”