IMPORTANT: Check here for the personal waste disposal guidance for anyone with coronavirus symptoms. The standard refuse collection service for most households (excluding communal properties) has been fortnightly in a 180-litre wheeled refuse bin. The roll-out of the new Recycle More service with extra weekly recycling means that all kerbside household refuse collections will soon be every three weeks. If your property is unsuitable for a wheeled bin (due to steps or lack of off-road storage), up to four sacks of refuse will be taken each collection. Kerbside rubbish has for many years been landfilled in Somerset at two sites – Dimmer near Castle Cary and Walpole near Bridgwater – but as part of major changes to all waste services, it is now all sent to generate electricity at a state-of-the-art £252 million energy-from-waste plant completed in Avonmouth. As well as electricity for the national grid, the energy-from-waste plant will also power a co-located plastics reprocessing plant that could take some if not all of the plastics collected for recycling in Somerset. When are my collection days? You can check your collection days online Check now