ORANGE recycling sacks will be collected every week from the beginning of next month – coinciding with the introduction of new bin lorries.
Brentwood Borough Council currently collects orange bags every fortnight with refuse in black bags and food waste collected every week.
But from April residents will be able to put their recycling, food waste and black sacks out every week.
Glass and green waste will remain a fortnightly collection.
The move coincides with the purchase of five 26-tonne bin lorries.
Concerns from some residents that bin men have been throwing food waste in with dry recycling have been denied by the council.
However, with different vehicles picking up recycling and black-bag waste from April 1, the authority believes that the risk of this happening has been negated.
The new policy has been introduced to increase the level of recycling and decrease the amount of landfill for which the council has to pay.
The borough's recycling rate has been on a upward trend in recent years.
In 2007/08, 41.2 per cent of waste was recycled.
In 2011/12 that figure stood at 47.99 per cent.
With the standard rate to bury waste in landfill increasing year on year, councils up and down the country are under pressure to improve their recycling rates.
On April 1, landfill tax will rise again to £72 a tonne.
Council leader Louise McKinlay said: "Our new weekly recycling service for dry waste takes our refuse collection to the next level.
"Weekly collections will mean less storage of the bags, making it even easier for people to recycle.
"Residents have told me that they welcome this.
"We have enjoyed at least six years of ever-increasing rates of recycling and this new service will further increase the amount we recycle – we are delivering a greener and cleaner Brentwood."
The new calendars and bags are in the process of being delivered and all residents should, by April 1, have one roll of 50 orange sacks, one roll of ten green garden waste sacks and two 25 compostable food waste sacks.
