Domestic Waste Services
We are a local authority established under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. You can contact us by:
- phone: 0300 100 1800
- address: Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose TD6 0SA
Why do we need your information?
We need your personal information to allow us to process your request which could be to:
- report a problem concerning household waste and recycling collections, community recycling centres and Waste Transfer Stations
- report a missed bin
- request a different bin size
- request assistance with a household collection service
- request a household bulky uplift
- assist us in operating our community recycling centre booking system for large vehicles/trailers wishing to access our sites (this information will be retained for up to twelve months)
- monitor your compliance with our recycling centre rules and policies, including trade waste
We also use your information to verify your identity where required, contact you by post, email or telephone and to maintain our records.
How we will use your information?
We provide these services to you as part of our statutory function as your local authority. Processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest ourselves under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978.
If you do not provide us with the information we have asked for then we will not be able to provide this service to you.
We are legally obliged to safeguard public funds so we are required to verify and check your details internally for fraud prevention. We may share this information with other public bodies (and also receive information from these other bodies) for fraud checking purposes.
We are also legally obliged to share certain data with other public bodies, such as HMRC and will do so where the law requires this. We will also generally comply with requests for specific information from other regulatory and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary and appropriate.
Your information is also shared and analysed internally in order to provide management information, inform service reform and similar purposes to meet our duty to achieve best value and continuous service improvement.
We currently keep some of your information without limit of time. We have a project underway to implement deletion in our CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system and the full range of circumstances where we will keep or delete information is being decided as part of this project and will be detailed here once the project reaches completion.
What are your rights?
For information on the rights you have over your personal data, please visit our website or if you would like a hard copy of this information, please contact us using the contact details provided above.
Information you have given us about other people
If you have provided anyone else's details on this form, please make sure that you have told them that you have given their information to us. We will only use this information to process your report of a problem with environmental issues in a public place. If they want any more information on how we will use their information they can visit our website or email.
How to raise a complaint
We aim to directly resolve all complaints about how we handle personal information. If your complaint is about how we have handled your personal information, you can contact our Data Protection Officer directly online or phone 0300 100 1800.
However, you also have the right to lodge a complaint about data protection matters with the Information Commissioner's Office, who can be contacted by:
- post: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
- phone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545745
- website
Please note if your complaint is not about a data protection matter but about waste services, you can raise this online via our website.