CDC has had to suspend the garden waste service. We now have a 20% shortage of staff and no longer have enough experienced drivers available for vehicles on all collection routes. Therefore we are suspending the garden waste service with immediate effect so we can prioritise drivers on the main collection services.

There will be no garden waste collection in Fairford tomorrow (or anywhere else). All other collections are continuing as normal for the moment.

Please increase your home composting and/or reduce the amount of garden waste you produce. Lawns are the usual problem – personally I’m already mowing less, planting more wildflower meadow areas, leaving more areas to grow long and only picking up the cuttings every other mow (which lets it dry on the ground before it goes in the compost heap). If you don’t have a compost heap now is a good time to start one.

Gloucestershire County Council closed the Household Recycling Centres on Tuesday so you cannot take green waste there.

Do not put garden waste in your black wheelie bin – excessive wet waste is a problem for the operation of the “Energy from Waste” (incinerator) plant where all Gloucestershire’s black bin waste goes. Garden waste in the black wheelie bin will not be accepted.