Currently the council offers a kerbside collection of recyclables for most of its 119,000 residents but has taken the green waste with domestic refuse for disposal in landfill.
Nicole Atkinson, Broadland’s recycling officer, explained that the move was part of the Norfolk wide strategy to increase recycling rates.
“This will help get the weight of our household waste down and help to get the message over to householders not to generate the waste for disposal in the first place.”
She emphasised that the move was part of a strategy which will place much greater emphasis on the home composting of household green waste with the district offering subsidised home composting bins.
Residents who still want their garden waste to be collected by the council will now have to buy orange sacks which will be collected with normal brown bin waste and sent to landfill.
Councillor Stan Rendall, leader of Broadland said: “Broadland residents have enjoyed a first rate refuse collection service for many years. However, we are now faced with having to make changes over the coming years to meet national and European targets to reduce the use of landfill sties for waste disposal.
“As a first stage to achieving this, we must all reduce the amount of waste we generate and increase the amount of this waste we recycle and compost. Indeed, a number of recent surveys have convinced us that our residents want to play a full part in recycling and composting waste.”
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