None of Oldham's rubbish is being recycled during the coronavirus lockdown, bosses have confirmed. The council has introduced temporary weekly waste collections with residents asked to put all their household waste and recyclable materials in the same bin.
The measure, which was put in place on Monday, aims to ensure people's rubbish is collected during the pandemic and the streets are kept clean amid staff shortages.
However it means that for the time being, none of residents' recyclable items - food, plastic, glass and cans, or paper and card - are being re-purposed.
Instead they will be collected and dealt with as part of general household waste, which is burnt at a specialist waste-to-energy plant to generate electricity.