Ealing council's cabinet has agreed to finance a raft of measures from November 2007, which includes increasing garden waste collections to every week, trialling recycling in flats and seeing refuse and recycling collected on the same day.
” The package we have come up with aims to provide a much better standard of service to residents while keeping things as simple as possible. “
– Cllr Jason Stacey, Ealing
In particular, the funding will support a new kerbside plastics recycling service, something ECT has warned in the past might prove expensive when run as part of its source separated collections (see letsrecycle.com story). This could include all plastics except garden furniture and toys.
Ealing council leader Jason Stacey said: “To make recycling as easy as possible we have expanded services so that people can recycle most things from home. The package we have come up with aims to provide a much better standard of service to residents while keeping things as simple as possible.”
Changes
As part of the planned recycling changes, which will be made under ECT's seven year integrated waste and recycling collection and street service contract with Ealing council, re-usable garden sacks will replace disposable pink sacks for garden waste.
Residents in 1,000 flats will also take part in a six-month trial t offer a mixed dry recycling bag for home collection, with communal recycling in estates being rolled out for 3,224 remaining homes.
The changes, which are subject to a call in period, follow a public consultation launched in October 2006 which addressed how recycling should be managed in Ealing and whether wheeled bins should be introduced.
Cllr Stacey said: “The recent consultation shows that people feel very strongly about refuse and recycling collections. We promised to listen to what people wanted as well as really trying to find out what worked well and what didn't.”
He added: “In Southall, we have decided to introduce wheelie bins in those roads where there was majority support for them and it was practical operationally. We believe that by taking rubbish off the streets these bins will really help to tackle the problems of rats in the area, especially around the town centre.”
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ECT
ECT declined to comment on further details of the service as it was “commercially sensitive” until the plans were confirmed in writing.
Last month, the company said it would be bidding for more integrated waste and recycling collection contracts on the back of profits made under its first integrated waste, recycling and street cleansing contract in Ealing (see letsrecycle.com story).
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