Additional waste collection on hold
national guidance on coronavirus and for the council's environmental teams to be able to support refuse and recycling collection services.
It has also issued advice on how people can protect themselves and council workers as the waste rounds continue, as well as help the teams should changes be made to the usual routine.
Residents can check on their bin collection dates at www.sunderland.gov.uk/ bindays and people are being asked to bear with the council while these dates are updated during the crisis.
Garden waste collections were due to begin tomorrow, but the council is now looking the start these from Tuesday, April 28, and extend them beyond the end of the current subscription period, with the final collection now taking place in December.
It is also looking to suspend its bulky waste collection service from Wednesday, April 1.
Any bulky waste collections which have already been arranged will be collected.
Fiona Brown, executive director of neighbourhoods, said: "Pausing our bulky collection and garden waste collection services will allow us to concentrate our efforts on supporting the NHS and prioritising help for vulnerable people, as well as keeping our refuse and recycling collections going at a time when resources are particularly stretched.
"We would ask residents to bear with us during this time.
“Council staff are working exceptionally hard to make sure that we can carry on providing critical services to the most vulnerable members of our community but this means we are having to reassess and temporarily stand down some of our noncritical services.
"We're also asking residents to store any bulky or garden waste until collections restart or our Household Waste and Recycling Centres reopen."