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The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT) has revealed that it has been working alongside local authority network groups to discern how waste services throughout England have been affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. ADEPT received responses from over 200 councils in only two days, which showed that ‘despite running at an average of over 20% down on staff numbers, all but a few councils are still managing providing collection services for domestic residual waste as normal, and over 90% of responding councils are maintaining their recycling services as normal or with only minor disruption’. That said, ‘in order to maintain these levels of service, about a third of councils have temporarily suspended collections of garden waste, and about two thirds have suspended bulky waste collections’.
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