Billie Piper, Melinda Messenger and Charlie Austin inspire Swindon …
Ahead of the biggest changes to the Borough’s waste and recycling collections for 15 years, the Council asked residents to name the new collection lorries in order to generate heightened interest and awareness of the major upcoming changes.
More than 300 suggestions were put forward by residents when the competition was launched a couple of months ago and these have been whittled down to 17 winners.
Names suggested for the vehicles included ones referencing Swindon actress Billie Piper and Swindon Town’s star striker, Charlie Austin, as well as some more imaginative takes on popular culture including Lightning McQueen and Crash Bandicoot.
From Monday, November 27, a new food waste collection service will be rolled out across the entire borough, as well as other changes to the way recycling is collected.
Households have one more collection on the current service before the changes are implemented and the new lorries are out collecting recycling across Swindon.
The final names were chosen by the leader of the council, Councillor Jim Robbins, Councillor Chris Watts, cabinet member for the environment and transport, and members of the waste and recycling project team.
The winning names are:
- Lightning McClean
- Binny McBinface
- Chitty Chitty Bin Bin
- Binderella
- Trash bandicoot
- Binnie Piper
- Melinda Messcollector
- Binnie the Pooh
- Isambard Bin-dom Brunel
- Rex The Recycler
- Charlie Aust-bin
- Hungry Caterpillar
- Recyclosaurus
- Scrappie-doo
- Humpty Dumpy
- Monster Munch
- Dumpeldore
Cllr Watts said: “It was great to see so many people getting involved with the naming of our new vehicles.
“A big thank you to everyone who submitted a name and I hope people aren’t too disappointed if their name wasn’t chosen.”
One weighted bag has been delivered to each household and residents are urged to squash their recycling to fit in as much as possible. If residents have not received new recycling containers ahead of the new service changes, they can report a missed delivery on the council website.
Food waste will be collected weekly, while general waste and other recycling will be collected fortnightly.
Residents who live in a property with a communal bin store are not affected by the changes at this time, so don’t need any new containers.