MALDON District Council's contractor has issued an update on when it hopes to collect garden waste again after two weeks.

Garden waste collections in the district were suspended on Thursday, March 17, for the rest of the week as drivers were off sick with Covid-19.

The district council further announced on Monday (March 22) collections were suspended for the rest of this week due to the crews being off sick.

Suez UK, the waste collection firm contracted by the district council, has now advised it will attempt to collect garden waste tomorrow, March 25.

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Anyone whose garden waste is due to be collected on Friday is asked to present it as normal for collection.

If their garden waste has not been collected by the end of the day it should be brought back in and represented on the next collection day.

A spokesman for Maldon District Council said: "We appreciate how frustrating this will be to hear for users of the Garden Waste Collection Service, but unfortunately there are still crews off with Covid-19 and we therefore ask you to bear with us while normal service is resumed.

"Our contractor SUEZ UK are working quickly to resume normal services, so please bear with us."

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