The scheme has been rolled out to 10,000 homes in the rural North Yorkshire district, each being given a 260-litre blue wheeled bin for paper, with green and grey 50-litre bins inside the blue bin, to collect glass and cans. The containers have been supplied by Telford-based Plastic Omnium.
 Dennis Eagle One Pass vehicles are to be used for Craven district's “three-in-one” recycling scheme |
The council has said it is the first time that the UK has seen a three-compartment bin system used for household waste collection. New three compartment, “One Pass” recycling vehicles from Dennis Eagle have been provided to carry out the collections each fortnight.
Craven district council has invested 575,000 in the system, which has also entailed the construction of a new materials handling facility in Skipton.
Choice
Neville Allan, head of waste management at Craven, said: “Having elected to use a three-in-one method for collecting the dry materials using the Plastic Omnium system, marrying this with a three compartment RCV made the choice of Dennis Eagle's One Pass an obvious one.
“It is our aim to use the scheme as a means of diverting nearly 7,000 tonnes of the 25,000 tonnes of waste we collect annually to recycling in order to achieve a 27% recycling target by March 2006.”
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Specified with the two driver plus three cab, the One Pass vehicle will collect the recyclables with each material emptied into a different compartment – the largest for paper, smaller compartment for cans and glass will be emptied into the behind-the-cab top-loading pod.
Craven district council recycled 18% of its household waste in 2003/04, just meeting its statutory recycling target for that year. The new collection pilot could help it to meet the 27% target it is aiming to reach by 2005/06.
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