East Ayrshire recycling collections are set to return next week.
The council made the announcement last night that the kerbside collections would resume on Monday, May 4.
But the local authority has revealed today that not all services will return to normal next week.
The collection of garden waste in the brown bin will not be restarting for the time being.
A council statement says: "Not all waste services have fully resumed though for a number of reasons.
"Due to physical distancing measures, we can now only have two refuse collectors in the cab at any one time, rather than the usual three.
"This has an impact on logistics and requires additional vehicles to support priority collections. We also have reduced numbers of staff due to many of them having to self-isolate."
But the weekly collection of the recycling trolley, weekly food bin uplift and three-weekly green residual bin collection will return to normal.
What CAN be put in your green bin: Nappies (bagged and tied securely), polystyrene, plastic film, liners and bags, pet food pouches, biscuit and crisp wrappers, sweet wrappers, toothpaste tubes, pet waste, packaging soiled with food, hoover dust.
What shouldn't be put in your bin: Any garden waste.
Any extra waste that doesn’t fit into your general waste bin can be placed in your brown bin.
Just put this out alongside your general waste bin on your scheduled collection day and the council will collect this too.
If you don’t have a brown bin you can place up to three additional sacks out beside your green general waste bin in the meantime.
Contact the council at waste@east-ayrshire.gov.uk with any questions on this.
Recycling centres and the recycling points at supermarkets cannot and should not be used.
People with garden waste have been told to consider home composting or storing it within your garden. There are no health risks associated with storing garden waste in this way.
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