Guidance issued to Wrexham households to help keep waste collection crews safe

Residents across Wrexham are being asked to clean their hands and to disinfect their bins and recycling caddies before and after touching them.

Wrexham Council say that to help to keep everyone safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, the “strict hygiene precautions” are “essential to keep you and our crews safe over the coming weeks.”

Collections across the county borough are continuing each week, with a council spokesperson saying that it will maintain general waste remove with “as little disruption as possible” over the coming weeks.

Services will also remain unchanged over the Easter period.

Guidance issued by the council includes:-

– Please clean your hands and disinfect your bag/bin/box/caddy handles before and after you touch them.
– Do not put tissues in your recycling as they can’t be recycled
– If you are self-isolating and feeling unwell please double-bag your personal waste such as tissues and put aside for 72 hours before putting out for collection

A spokesperson for Wrexham Council said: “We know that emptying your bins and recycling containers is probably the largest and the most visible service we provide to all our residents.

“Collection staff are key workers, please keep them safe to continue with their work.

“We would also like to thank you for all for the kind words and messages that have been left for our crews. Please continue to offer your support to them. It’s important and keeps morale up during these difficult times.”

Last week household recycling centres across Wrexham closed and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

The spokesperson added: “While the sites remain closed, we’re asking you to:

– Minimise the waste you create – please don’t have any ‘clear outs’ at home, or do anything else that creates extra rubbish (e.g. certain DIY projects etc). We know it’s not easy, but please try to keep your waste to a minimum.
– Put any gardening waste in your green bin as normal (we’ll keep emptying green bins for as long as we can), and store any extra gardening waste – that you can’t fit in your bin – in your garden for now. For example, if you’ve been pruning bushes, you might have to put the cuttings in a pile for now.
– Keep any other items you would normally take to the tip (old furniture, timber, electrical goods etc) at home for now – unless they’re suitable for placing in your black bin.
– Please don’t be tempted to fly-tip…please don’t leave waste at the gate or on the side of the road, or anywhere else where it shouldn’t be left.

“This is an incredibly challenging time for everyone in the UK, and our daily lives are being affected in all kinds of ways.

“But please don’t think we don’t care about how this is affecting you. We do, and we’re working as hard as we can to keep critical services going in Wrexham.”