Six thousand households in the county, in north west Wales, will each receive two kerbside boxes in the pilot scheme. Blue boxes will take plastic, glass and cans, and red boxes will take paper, cardboard and textiles.
Principal waste management officer Meirion Edwards said: “The new kerbside collection service will begin in late January. These new boxes will be emptied on the same day as the normal refuse collection.”
The collections, which will cover a mix of urban and rural areas, will be carried out by the council's refuse collector Verdant Group. The materials will be separated at the kerbside for separate containers on vehicles and bulked up at the council's recycling centre in Gwalchmai.
Currently, for materials collected in Anglesey's bring banks, glass goes a local quarry, paper to Cheshire Recycling, Cans to Alldport Recycling, plastic bottles to JJ Plastics and Textiles to the Salvation Army. The council is “in discussions” about where the kerbside-collected materials will go at the moment.
Anglesey currently has a recycling rate of 11%. If successful the collections could be extended to the rest of the Island, which has 32,406 households in total.
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