Properties that may be provided with council sacks as an alternative to wheelie bins include:
- Flats with limited/no external storage
- Properties with no frontage
- Properties with no rear access
- Properties with a very long drive where it is not efficient for crews to walk to a wheeled bin
- Properties where the council's vehicle fleet cannot access.
Households will be provided with an annual supply of council waste sacks. They will be delivered in October. The number of sacks that are delivered will equal to the capacity of a wheeled bin. You should received 4 pink and 8 clear rolls of sacks.
Households that require a sack collection will be provided an annual supply of following sacks for the following waste type:
- SKDC pink sack for domestic collections
- SKDC clear sack for dry mixed recycling including paper and card
Pink and clear sacks will be collected on alternate weeks. Clear sacks for dry mixed recycling can be presented when wheelie bin customers are presenting their purple lidded bin for paper and card, and these will be collected in a separate vehicle.
Maximum of 4 sacks will be collected from a household on any collection date. Any additional sacks will be treated as side waste and will not be collected.
When a household runs out of the yearly supply of clear sacks, you can buy more by using bin and sacks online process or by using clear sacks purchased elsewhere.
When a household runs out of the yearly supply of pink sacks, please use black sacks until you receive your annual delivery.
When vacating a sack collection household, residents should leave the remaining sacks at the property. When moving into a property that requires sacks partway through the annual delivery period (October - September), sacks should be ordered on the bin and sacks online process and the appropriate number of sacks for the remainder of the year will be delivered.