The government says councils must offer households a regular collection of these recyclable items:

• Glass
• Metal
• Plastic (including flexible plastics from 2027)
• Paper and card
• Food waste (from 2027)
• Garden waste (charges for collection may be applied).

Wiltshire Council doesn’t currently collect food waste or flexible plastics. It will though have to begin collecting flexible plastics from April 2027, and food waste from August 2027.

From that time residents will be asked to use one wheelie bin for paper and cardboard, a second wheely bin for mixed plastics, cans, cartons, and bagged flexible plastics, and a box for glass. So one more bin than at present.

More information about the council’s current recycling services can be found at https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/recycling. From 2024/25, the council expects to receive money from the packaging industry towards the cost of collecting, recycling and disposing of packaging waste, though the details of funding have not yet been announced.

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