Derby council is currently roiling out a new kerbside recycling scheme to its residents and a MRF is to be introduced in order to sort the waste.
” In order to reach recycling and landfill targets we need to collect as much biodegradable waste as possible “
– Neil Haslam, Derby council
Neil Haslam, waste management officer at Derby said: “RU Recycling, the company that will run the MRF is currently looking at three possible sites across the city and it will announce a preferred site by the end of this month.”
Derby council has said that it expects the plant, which will have a capacity of around 90,000 tonnes, to be up and running by this time next year, although Lancashire based RU Recycling believes it could be online by Christmas 2005.
The site will take in glass, cans and plastic – which will be collected in Derby's blue recycling bins. Derby has already introduced the blue bin to one third of its 100,000 households, the second roll out stage will take place in 2005 with the final stage next year. The blue bin is added to the red bag for textiles and blue bag for paper which the council has been collecting for around ten years.
Although the facility will have a capacity of 90,000 tonnes per year Derby will probably only provide around 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of this. The rest is likely to be made up by near by authorities.
Invessel composter
Derby is also in the process of building an invessel composter at Ashbourne on the outskirts of the city. Vital Earth, the company which won the contract for the composter is currently in discussion with the site in order to attain planning permission.
The site is likely to be between 60,000 and 80,000 tonnes per year and will take kitchen and garden waste from Derby's brown bin scheme, which has is being unveiled alongside the blue kerbside bin.
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Mr Haslam said: “We will are already collecting garden waste from kerbsides and this scheme will be unveiled to the whole city by 2006. But in order to reach recycling and landfill targets we need to collect as much biodegradable waste as possible. So as soon as Vital Earth says it is ready to begin taking kitchen waste we will be collecting it in the brown bin alongside the garden waste.”
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