One-off brown bin collections are being organised to pick up people’s garden and food waste in Bury. Collections had been disrupted across Greater Manchester due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Bury Council confirmed the collections will start this week. Residents are being urged to sign up for email reminders on when to put their bins out at www.bury.gov.uk/bincollections.
All other bin collections are continuing as normal, including on Good Friday. Councillor Alan Quinn, cabinet member for the environment, said: “Due to the coronavirus outbreak, waste collections have been severely disrupted, particularly brown bin collections. “However, we are arranging a one-off collection of the brown bins, recognising that many people will