Waste service updates

Update on Friday 30 January

If we missed your glass collection this week, apologies and please put your glass back out on your next scheduled collection day. We have managed to catch up with all missed blue and grey bins from last week and emptied all blue, grey and food bins scheduled for collection this week. Many thanks for your patience.

Thank you for your patience as we dealt with recent waste vehicle issues. We are pleased to confirm we remain on target to complete all outstanding blue and grey collections from last week by the end of this week. Food bins missed last week are also being collected as normal this week although because of roadworks, we've not been able to empty food bins on Corbie Craig Gardens, Bilston today. Please put it back out on your next collection day. As glass is non-statutory, for any missed glass collections, please present your glass bins at their next scheduled collection.

We apologise as we are unable to collect glass recycling today. If you glass box is due to be emptied in Penicuik and outlying areas, please take your glass back inside and present again on your next scheduled collection day.

We apologise as we are unable to collect glass recycling today. If you glass box is due to be emptied in Gorebridge, please take your glass back inside and present again on your next scheduled collection day.

We apologise we are unable to collect glass recycling today. If you glass box is due to be emptied in Newtongrange, Gorebridge or Mayfield areas, please take your glass back inside and present again on your next scheduled collection day.

We are unable to collect glass boxes/bins today from areas of Mayfield, Easthouses, Dalkeith, Newtongrange, Pathhead, North Middleton, Crichton, Whitehill. If your glass box/bin is not emptied today, please take it back inside and put it back out again on your next scheduled collection day.
If your blue bin was not emptied in the Dalkeith and Easthouses area today, please leave your bin in your designated collection point and we will aim to return as soon as resources allow.

We were unable to collect glass boxes/bins from areas of Bonnyrigg, Carrington, Temple, Dalkeith including Eskbank. If your glass box/bin is not emptied today, please take it back inside and put it back out again on your next scheduled collection day.
We were unable to service blue bins in some streets in Eskbank, Bonnyrigg, Temple, Carrington, Cockpen and North Middleton. Please leave it out and we'll come back for it as soon as we can.

Many thanks for your patience.

From March 2026 we are changing how we collect your recycling:

You will have a NEW green bin for paper, card and cardboard.
Your blue bin will only be for plastic bottles, tubs and trays, steel and aluminium cans, and cartons.
There may be a change to the day we collect your blue, green and grey bins. These will be emptied on a three-weekly cycle.

Green bins will be delivered between mid-January and the end of February 2026.
Green bins will be delivered to the boundary of residential properties. In the case of an assisted pullout service, bins will be delivered directly to where they are stored.
You will receive a letter notifying you of the change of service. If your collection day changes, we will let you know.
For some properties, alternative shared recycling facilities will be provided, and you will be contacted separately regarding these.
Existing communal recycling bins will be converted to collect either paper and card or plastics, cans and cartons.