All seven sites are open from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday. The Culver Centre, Hume Avenue, and Billet Lane sites will also be open between 9am and 12pm on Saturday 15 May. The council will continue to review drop-off site provision and seek opportunities to add additional sites and hours of operation where possible.
Cllr Andrew Jefferies, Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “These sites have been established temporarily as a result of the disruption to household collections caused by the strike action being taken by Unite the Union. They have been created to give residents an opportunity to get rid of the waste most likely to generate an odour. The sites will be closed as soon as collections can return to normal.
THE council has added opened two more temporary waste drop off sites as refuse workers are say they will not back down over a pay row. Thurrock bin men have been on strike since April 13, and now the Unite the Union members are on an all-out strike and will not be collecting any waste until May 28. Unite the union claims refuse workers, highways maintenance and street cleaning teams are the target of proposed cuts up to £3,500. But Thurrock Council insists the union signed an agreement which included £800,000 investment in pay in the first year of a four-year pay deal. The new sites for temporary waste drop off are the Car park at Impulse Leisure Belhus Park, Park Lane, South Ockendon, and the Car park at Impulse Leisure Blackshots, Blackshots Lane, Grays.