VITAL information about how to recycle more items will land on doormats in Sedgemoor and West Somerset next week.

The 'Recycle More is coming soon' leaflet contains information about Somerset Waste Partnership's expanded recycling service being launched at the end of February.

The orange and blue leaflets feature a calendar showing which days recycling and rubbish will be collected for the next 12 months.

Two-thirds of homes will have a change in collection day.

The leaflet informs you of your first Recycle More collection date, when you should put out new materials and use the new Bright Blue Bag.

Some households will also have a one-off, extra Saturday rubbish collection on February 26 or March 5 before Recycle More starts.

What needs to go into each container changes with Recycle More, so the leaflet includes a colour coded ‘What goes where?’ diagram.

Delivery of Recycle More’s Bright Blue Bags will also start next Monday (February 7) and should take around two weeks to reach all households.

The bags will be left somewhere easy to find near front doors, usually in an empty recycling container. Don't put the bag out until your first collection day, as shown in your leaflet calendar.

As bags are delivered, stickers will be stuck on everyone’s recycling boxes making it clear what needs to go where once Recycle More starts.

Recycle More adds the following items to weekly recycling collections: plastic pots, tubs and trays; food and drink cartons; small batteries; small electrical items.

With more being recycled, rubbish will be collected every three weeks instead of fortnightly. Garden and clinical waste collections will not change.

The service is already running in Mendip, South Somerset and Taunton Deane, delivering hundreds of tonnes of extra recycling each week.

SWP is hosting Facebook Q&A days about the new service on Friday, February 18 and Wednesday, March 16, from 7am to 7pm.

Visit @somersetwaste and post questions as comments once the session has started.

Where it can, Recycle More will also improve recycling for homes with shared or communal collections, for example blocks of flats and homes of multiple occupancy.

These improvements will be brought in later in the year at a date to be confirmed and what is possible will depend on space and access.