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Recycle More, Waste Less in Bournemouth!

Learn about Bournemouth's comprehensive kerbside recycling scheme, weekly food waste collections, and alternate weekly bin collection service. Discover how residents can recycle a wide range of materials, reduce food waste, and utilize community recycling centers. Join the waste prevention campaigns and find out about other ways to recycle and reuse items. Take part in making Bournemouth a greener place!

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Recycle More, Waste Less in Bournemouth!

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  1. Recycle More, Waste Less in Bournemouth! Sarah Speakman-Jones Senior Waste & Resource Officer

  2. Big Bin, Little Bin • Since September 2006 Bournemouth residents have used a • comprehensive kerbside recycling scheme • Households use Little Bin for rubbish and Big Bin for recycling. • Majority of flats have large communal recycling bins • Introduction of weekly food waste collections in 2014 • Alternate weekly bin collection service introduced in 2017.

  3. Big Bin • Residents can recycle: • Materials update, we can now take: • Foil & foil trays • Plastic food containers e.g. margarine tubs & yoghurt pots • Food & drink cartons i.e. Tetra Paks • Envelopes with windows & all bottles tops

  4. Food waste collections 38% of Bournemouth’s rubbish bin was food

  5. Food collections- what can go in? All cooked and uncooked food

  6. Food Waste Collected – 2018 60 tonnes of contamination such as plastic bags, packaging, foil, paper 3230 tonnes of food waste collected (average 13 tonnes per day) Output 1: 1,001,213 kWhsof energy generated from biogas released The Eco Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Plant in Piddlehinton Output 2: 3779 tonnes of liquid nutrient rich biofertiliser, which is sufficient to cover 239 acres of farmland • Producing enough electricity to power 229 households as well as powering the AD facility

  7. Alternate Weekly Collections • In April 2017 an alternate weekly bin collection service was introduced. Big Bin (recycling) one week, Little Bin (rubbish) the next • Enhanced weekly food waste collections using a larger 23 litre container • Since the introduction recycling collected from the kerbside has steadily increased, the amount sent to landfill has decreased by 14% and food waste increased by 70%

  8. Millhams Community Recycling Centre Millhams Community Recycling Centre • Excess recycling and refuse can be taken to Millhams • The site is open 9am – 4pm (winter) & 9am-5pm (summer) • Bournemouth residents have to provide proof of residency – ideally a council tax • statement or your driving licence with your name and address on it, if not can use • any bill with address on • Vans, trucks, lorries or any other vehicle which is not a domestic/family car will not be • allowed entry into Millhams without a permit • Run on our behalf by Borough of Poole as of 1st April 2016 • New 2 You reuse shop at Cabot Lane

  9. Other Ways to Recycle • You can recycle household batteries and small electrical items, no bigger than 30cm x 20cm x 20cm, in a plastic bag on or next to your recycling bin • You can take energy saving light bulbs to: • Millhams Community Recycling Centre • Southbourne and Pokesdown Library • Boscombe Library • Kinson Hub • Bournemouth Library • Castlepoint Library

  10. Waste Prevention Campaigns- Reduce Smart Shopping (Plastic 16%) • Buying in bulk • Packaging awareness e.g. avoid over-packaged products • Buying loose items e.g. vegetables • Buying recycled & recyclable Love Food, Hate Waste (Kitchen Waste 38%) • National campaign run in conjunction with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to raise awareness about levels of food waste in UK and practical advice to reduce it e.g. left over recipes, portion sizes, storage tips

  11. Waste Prevention Campaigns- Reduce • Real Nappy Incentive Scheme (Disposable Nappies 4%) • Refund scheme to encourage use of ‘real’ rather than disposable nappies • Drop-in sessions • Home composting (Garden Waste 11%) • Discounts on compost containers from www.getcomposting.com • Repair Café events (WEEE 1% & textiles 4%) • Volunteer fixers supporting residents to repair broken items in a relaxed • setting with cake!

  12. Waste Prevention Campaigns- Reuse • Give or Take days • Dorset Reclaim • Millhams New to You • Charity shops • Freecycle • Boscombe Community Fridge

  13. Summary • The Big Bin, Little Bin scheme has provided positive • improvements to waste and recycling in Bournemouth. • Food waste service started March 2014 • Alternate weekly rubbish collection introduced in 2017 • has increased the use of the food waste service by residents • Bournemouth has many waste prevention campaigns it also promotes

  14. Thank You Any Questions?

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