Selected households in the areas covered by Boston borough council, North Kesteven district council and South Holland district council are set to take part in the scheme, which is due to start on September 2 and last for one year if approved this week.
Only specific rounds – which have been chosen to cover a selection of rural and urban postcodes – will be affected.
Logistics
Lincolnshire’s Joint Waste Partnership says it is pursuing the trial ‘due to the changing markets and the requirement to increase the quality of the MDR [mixed dry recyclables] and as such its effect on the efficiency and effectiveness of the waste collection and disposal process’. Contamination in the county currently stands at 30%.
In Boston and North Kesteven a separate wheeled bin will be provided to each affected household for the collection of paper and card. In South Holland a blue sack which is similar to the green sacks currently used to collect commingled recycling will be supplied.
It is hoped these receptacles will keep the materials dry thus ensuring the paper remains desirable to buyers.
No additional RCVs will be required and there will be no additional collection rounds. Instead paper and card collections and other recycling collections will be carried out on alternate weeks.
As well as improving the quality of the paper which councils collect, South Holland council suggests the separate collections may also mean that paper which is usually put in residual waste will now be put in the specific bins, upping recycling rates.
In Boston 3,229 households will be involved, with another 1,820 included in North Kesteven and 4,531 in South Holland.
Communications for the trial are due to begin at the end of July.
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