RecyclingMonster - MORAY Council is to restart collections of recycling waste from next week.

Following a period of self-isolation and the implementation of social distancing within the workforce, the council says there is now sufficient capacity to re-instate collection of blue and purple bins on a three-weekly schedule from Monday, April 20.

Recycling bins will be emptied on the same day as residents’ normal green bin collection day. Details can be found on the council’s bin day finder page on its website.

However, glass for kerbside collection will not be collected as yet. The council says it is working to enable servicing of its unmanned bottle banks, which should only be used as part of an essential journey for food or medical supplies and social distancing should be observed.

A Moray Council spokesman said: "Observations over the last three weeks means we have capacity to reinstate some of the recycling services and still maintain social distancing between our teams.

"It is heartening to see that residents have taken on our request to store their recycling waste rather than putting it in the green bins as we’ve seen no increase in waste going to landfill.