Mary Reid

Next week, if you live in Chessington North and Hook your refuse will be collected on Tuesday, as usual. In fact, all over the Borough refuse and recycling will be collected on the normal day.

So what?

Well, Monday is a Bank Holiday. In the past there was no collection on Bank Holidays, and everyone's refuse was collected one or even two days later in the week.

The new waste contractors, Veolia, have agreed to ignore Bank Holidays and collect on the usual day every week of the year (apart from at Christmas and New Year, of course).

Now this should avoid confusion in the long run, although it is inevitable that some rubbish will be left out on the wrong day next week. If that happens to you just ring the Waste hotline on 8547 5560 and they will arrange for it to be picked up in a day or so.