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from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Tuesday, October 7
Every home in Hull will be given a new kitchen waste bin so families can recycle their food scraps. The proposed £6.7m scheme will see every household – an estimated 100,000 – provided with a kitchen “caddie” and roll of biodegradable bags.
This waste would be collected alongside a new service to pick up garden rubbish.
Garden and food waste will be taken to a composting site and processed.
The council will decide at a later date whether to sell the compost back to homeowners, make it available at recycling sites or give it to farmers.
Households with gardens will be provided with a five-litre caddie and a large outdoor garden waste bin, while high-rise properties will be excluded.
Residents will be asked to empty the contents of the caddie into the garden waste bin, which will be collected fortnightly.
Those without gardens will be given 25-litre caddies that will be collected each week.
As part of the waste collection overhaul, residents will now be asked to put all dry recyclable goods – including bottles and cans – in the blue wheelie bins, currently only used for paper and magazines.
Black boxes will no longer be used for bottles and cans.
Weekly collections of general household waste in black wheelie bins will remain as they are.
David Woods, portfolio holder for environment and waste at Hull City Council, said: “This is a complete restructuring of the city’s waste – but we’ve made it as simple as possible.
“We’re not asking anyone to do anything drastic. It’s still chucking stuff away, just in a different place.
“We have been working on this for a long time and we feel
it’s the best and easiest way for things to improve.
“Some councils take the carrot-and-stick approach and go down the enforcement route.
“We believe if you make it as easy as possible for people, they will go along with it, because it’s the right thing to do.
“It will cost some money to get set up, but will potentially save about £3m a year in landfill taxes.
“That’s money that will be saved for everyone across the board.”
Doug Sharp, waste development team manager at the council, said: “If you gave residents a blank piece of paper and asked them to come up with their ideal waste disposal system, I think they would have come up with this.
“We are currently operating at 27.5 per cent of waste being recycled and the Government target is 40 per cent recycling by 2010.
“This will take us a long way towards that target.
“Next year, the costs of waste disposal will go up by £800,000. The year after that it will double to £1.6m.
“We need to get this new scheme moving as quickly as possible and would be looking at next April to get the new collections operating.
“What drives this scheme is the positive effect it will have on the environment and climate change.
“It is important we don’t lose sight of why we are doing this.”
About 11,000 homes in eight areas of the city have taken part in a year-long trial of the garden waste collection scheme.
Bob Sandham, of Victoria Avenue, west Hull, took part in the garden waste trial.
Mr Sandham said: “I think every home should have one of these.
“The trial went extremely well and the bin was very useful.”
The plans will be considered by the council’s scrutiny committee on Tuesday next week before a final decision at cabinet on Monday, October 27.
Hull City Council www.hullcc.gov.uk
National Recycling Targets www.recycling-guide.org.uk
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New green scheme gets the go-ahead
from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Tuesday, October 28
A radical shake-up of Hull’s household rubbish collection service has been given the go-ahead by councillors.
Due to be rolled out across Hull from next April, the changes will see:
- Fortnightly collections of dry recyclables, including bottles, plastics, newspapers and cardboard.
- Fortnightly collections of garden and kitchen waste.
- A separate collection service for kitchen waste from homes without gardens.
Councillor Dave Woods, cabinet member for the environment, stressed the main household bin collection service would remain weekly despite the changes.
He said: “Although the changes will require some major changes in the way the public collect and sort waste, they should not really notice that much of a difference.
“If you already have a blue bin, that will become the bin for dry recyclables.
“Similarly, if you have a brown bin for garden waste, that will become the bin to add kitchen waste to.
“Hopefully, it’s going to make things a lot simpler for people.
“It will just be a question of getting used to knowing what type of waste goes in what bin.
“We believe it should also help us make significant inroads into our 45 per cent recycling target for 2010.”
The move will spell the end for the current black box that residents put their dry recyclable items in.
Instead, they will be asked to use their blue bins, which are currently reserved for newspapers and magazines.
The introduction of food waste recycling will see households being issued with special caddies to keep in their kitchens.
They will then be able to transfer the waste into biodegradable bags for collection from brown bins earmarked for garden waste.
As part of the changes, cabinet councillors also gave the go-ahead for officers to investigate the possibility of a developing a new dry recycling collection point and composting facility in the city in partnership with waste contractor WRG to cope with the anticipated increase in recyclable waste coming through the system.
If feasible, it is thought the process of securing planning permission and the necessary operating permits could take up to three years.
In the meantime, recyclable material is expected to be sent to a commercial facility in Hull.
Cllr Woods confirmed the changes would only come into effect after a major publicity drive by the council. He said: “We need to make sure people know exactly which bins to use.”
Hull City Council www.hullcc.gov.uk
WRG www.wrg.co.uk
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