A new kerbside waste and recycling service will go live in the Stewartry later this month.
The move follows the scheme’s successful rollout in Wigtownshire in November.
Bins will be delivered to Kirkcudbrightshire households between 15 March and April 3.
Community council representatives attended an online briefing on Friday to hear how the new service will work.
Gatehouse secretary Helen Keating was among those taking part.
She said: “The new bins will be delivered to us from March 25.
“The new collections, on the same days as now, should start from March 26.
“The red and blue lidded ones are the same size as our present black ones which we will continue to use for general household waste.
“There are also smaller sized ones and hessian sacks for small collections.”
Mrs Keating added: “When the bins are delivered there will be a plastic pack attached to them containing details of what to put in which bin.
“All contents will have to be washed and flattened where appropriate.
“There will also be a calendar showing the days which colour will be collected.”
Once the new regime starts Gatehouse residents will have to take any glass waste to the bottle bank in the car park.
Scotland-wide, after July, 2022, a new 20p per glass bottle deposit scheme will come into force.
The deposit will be refunded when the bottle is returned to the shop where it was bought.
Similar schemes are in operation across much of the European Union.
“It seems that if you buy your wine online you can take the bottles to any participating shop to claim the money back,” Mrs Keating said.
According to the council, most residents will be provided with two new 240-litre wheeled bins.
Red-lidded bins will handle plastics, metals and cartons with blue-lidded ones reserved for paper, card and cardboard.
Grey-lidded bins for non-recylable waste will be collected fortnightly.
The blue and red bins will be collected on alternate weeks in between.
Properties with insufficient space for individual bins will be provided with shared bins or recycling bags instead.
Weighted re-usable hessian sacks can also be used for household recycling.
The new recycling service will allow the council to help Scotland meet its target of recycling 70 per cent of all waste by 2025.
