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Achieving 60%+ recycling Proposals to introduce weekly recycling collection

Achieving 60%+ recycling Proposals to introduce weekly recycling collection. Introduction. March Cabinet proposals Details of new weekly recycling option Financial analysis and key risks Implementation Recommendations. March Cabinet proposals.

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Achieving 60%+ recycling Proposals to introduce weekly recycling collection

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  1. Achieving 60%+ recycling Proposals to introduce weekly recycling collection

  2. Introduction • March Cabinet proposals • Details of new weekly recycling option • Financial analysis and key risks • Implementation • Recommendations

  3. March Cabinet proposals • Keep fortnightly collections but change how recycling is collected. • Move to an unsorted dry recyclable collection, using existing boxes (to be separated at a Materials Recycling Facility MRF). • Introduce a dedicated weekly food waste collection service, utilising food caddies and collected with an integrated food pod on the waste collection vehicle • Bid to DCLG for additional funding to support implementation

  4. Weekly recycling collection • Opportunity to develop a weekly mixed dry recycling materials collection. • This is in addition to a dedicated weekly food waste collection. • Use of lorries with pods that allows the collection of recycling as well as food waste with both green and black bin collections • The most cost effective option would be for residents to put all recycling in new 240 litre wheeled bins and flats to use Euro 1100 bins.

  5. Current and future waste collection

  6. Breakdown of options *Taken from meeting between St Albans Council, County and HWP – 13 April 2012 ** This is the potential additional income that would be reached by achieving a 70% recycling rate.

  7. How costs will be met

  8. Key Risks

  9. Prepare Phased Implementation

  10. Government funding • Outline bid submitted to DCLG • Feedback: • Third of three priority categories • Explain impact of food collection for residents in flats • More evidence on financial projections and additional resources needed • Review environmental impact • Either submit stand alone bid or partnership bid • Final bid to be submitted by 17 August 2012 • Weekly recycling proposal likely to be more attractive to Government, as closer to their top priorities • Recommend submitting as stand alone bid, as goes beyond what Herts Waste Partnership have agreed (but with their endorsement as a pilot)

  11. Summary • Residents can expect: • Weekly collections of recycling and food waste • Easier to recycle (no sorting, all in one bin) • Increased range of materials to recycle (including plastics) • Food caddy to hold food waste cleanly • Removal of smelly waste every week • No additional costs • Step change in recycling rates – reduced waste to landfill

  12. Recommendations • Introduce a weekly rather than fortnightly collection of dry mixed recycling materials (glass, cans, plastic, paper etc), if our DCLG funding is successful. • Include in the bid to DCLG an extra £169k of annual operational costs over the £549k previously agreed by Cabinet • Incur one off costs of £1.2m in new 240 litre wheeled and Euro 1100 bins (for flats) to collect the recycling and a £96k distribution cost for these bins. • Change the final funding bid to DCLG to a stand alone application to include a weekly dry mixed recycling materials collection. • Carry out a phased implementation between October 2012 and March 2013.

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