WOKINGHAM Borough Council will be delivering over five million blue waste bags to residents in Wokingham, which will be used for household waste that cannot be recycled.

The council will be delivering the bags from Monday, January 21, which will take approximately five weeks to arrive.

The waste collections will be introduced to households in Wokingham from April this year.

In preparation, residents will receive an outdoor container, kitchen caddy and a roll of caddy liners in March.

The waste bags this year will have two handles, but the size and quality of the bags will still remain the same.

Councillor John Halsall, executive member for environment, leisure and libraries, said: " We hope that with last year’s increase in items of what can be recycled in kerbside collections, as well as the upcoming roll out of food waste collections in April, we can see a significant reduction in the amount of household waste that we produce as a Borough.

“Our aim is to recycle at least 50% of all waste in the Borough by 2020.”

The idea was first introduced in 2012, designed to restrict the volume of waste per household to approximately 120 litres per week.

In the first year the introduction of the blue bags resulted in a thirty per cent reduction of residential waste.

Each household in the Borough will receive 80 bags in two rolls of 40, which should last them until March next year.

Waste collections will continue to be on a weekly basis and the number of bags each household receives will not reduce.

For more information visit: http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/rubbish-and-recycling/.