GT Reading — Test 30

Reading passage

TEXT A — Kerbside Collection — What Goes Where Millbrook District Council collects household waste from every home fortnightly, on alternate Wednesdays. Please have your bins out by 7 a.m. on collection day; crews will not return for containers put out late. Your green-lidded bin is for garden trimmings and food scraps only — grass, leaves, hedge clippings, peelings and eggshells are all welcome, but please keep out plastic bags, even ones labelled biodegradable. The blue-lidded bin takes clean paper, cardboard, glass jars, tins and rinsed plastic bottles. Flatten boxes so more will fit. Everything that cannot be recycled goes in the standard grey bin. If your grey bin is regularly overflowing, ask us about a larger size rather than leaving extra sacks beside it, as loose rubbish attracts vermin and will not be taken. Residents in flats above the High Street use the shared bin store; the code for the store gate changes each January and is posted on the noticeboard inside your building. Missed a collection because your street was blocked by roadworks? Report it online within 48 hours and we will arrange a return visit at no charge. Bins damaged by our crews are replaced free; bins lost or damaged by residents cost £26 to replace. ———————————— TEXT B — Saturday Repair & Reuse Café Before you throw it out, bring it to us! The Reuse Café at Ashcombe Community Hall runs on the first Saturday of every month, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Our volunteer menders will look at small electricals, bicycles, clothing and wooden furniture free of charge — you pay only for any parts they need to order in. Last spring our team gave a second life to more than four hundred items that would otherwise have gone to landfill. There is no need to book for repairs; simply turn up and take a numbered ticket at the door. Please bring the charger or lead for any electrical item, as menders cannot test a device without it. While you wait, enjoy tea, coffee and home baking in the café corner, all served on real crockery rather than disposables. We also run a swap table: leave a book, toy or kitchen gadget you no longer want and take home something new to you. Larger items such as sofas cannot be handled at the café — the council's bulky-waste service collects those for a small fee. The Reuse Café is entirely staffed by unpaid volunteers, and donations towards hall hire are gratefully received but never expected. ———————————— TEXT C — Battery & Small-Electricals Drop-Off Points Household batteries, cables and small gadgets must never go in any of your wheeled bins, as they can spark fires in collection lorries. Instead, use one of the free drop-off points listed below. The library on Fenwick Road accepts loose batteries in the green tube by the entrance whenever it is open, Monday to Saturday. The supermarket on Canal Street has a larger unit near the trolley bay that takes batteries, old phones and tangled charging cables; it is accessible during store hours, seven days a week. For anything bigger than a kettle — microwaves, heaters, power tools — visit the Household Recycling Centre on Tannery Lane. The centre is open daily except Tuesday, from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closes on all bank holidays. Vehicles longer than a standard van need a free permit, obtainable in advance on the council website. Please tape over the terminals of any lithium battery before dropping it off, and hand car batteries to a member of staff rather than placing them in a tube. Fluorescent tubes and energy-saving bulbs are also taken at Tannery Lane but not at the other two sites.