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Bin night arrangements will be changing across Guernsey from September, before the island's new waste strategy is introduced - along with the new charges.
New collections are being introduced for food waste and glass recycling this autumn as part of the new "pay as you throw" system, which itself will come in fully next year.
The States want to give householders time to familiarise themselves with revised collections before the new charges come into effect.
When the new waste strategy starts being introduced in September, black bag collections will become a fortnightly service for most, to encourage waste reduction and recycling, to reduce overall collection costs, and to help households minimise their waste bills.
With food waste, which accounts for 40% of all black bag contents, collected weekly, the idea is that households will reduce the remaining material, so that can be collected less frequently.
Glass will be collected on alternate weeks, and the current blue and clear kerbside bags for other recycling will continue to be picked up fortnightly.
There will be some weekly collections in some of the "more built-up areas of St Peter Port" for "general refuse", but all other collections will see the same reduced frequency as in other parishes.
This will all come into force on 2 September.
Reusable containers for food waste and glass will be delivered to homes before that.
Charges for rubbish collections will change in 2019 when the new system is fully introduced.
Pictured: Food waste caddys to be used under Guernsey's new waste strategy
When that "pay-as-you-throw" system is introduced, the parishes will only charge for the collections. The States will then recover the costs of any subsequent processing, treatment and disposal. That will include a payment per black bag of waste produced, using a system of prepaid stickers.
In addition, an annual fixed charge could also be levied per household.
One option would see all the cost initially put on bag charges. Households would then pay between £3.50 and £4.50 for each bag they put out. If an annual fixed fee is levied, it is likely that the pay as you throw charge would be less than £3.50 per bag.
The States Trading Supervisory Board previously indicated that an annual £115 fixed charge would result in a bag charge of £2.50.
You can read more about the proposals and options here. A decision is likely to be made on the charges in April.
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