Wheeled bins with inner caddies are being rolled out to residents in Hinckley and Bosworth in a bid to make the boroughs dual stream recycling collection service easier to use.
The bins are being distributed to 47,000 households by the councils collection contractor, Palm Recycling, to replace the hessian bags and boxes previously used to collect dry recyclables.
Residents are being provided with a 240 litre wheeled bin for glass, cans, plastics and Tetrapaks; which features a 55 litre inner caddy for the paper and card. The bins were provided by container manufacturer Straight. A pink bag has been retained for the collection of textiles alongside a brown bin for garden waste and a black bin for residual waste.
The service is operated on an alternate weekly system with dry recyclables being collected one week and garden and residual waste the next.
The borough switched to the dual stream service last year (see letsrecycle.com story) which originally saw residents able to collect glass, cans, plastics and Tetrapak in a blue bag or box and card and plastic in a yellow hessian bag. Prior to the change in service last year separate containers were provided for all the individual materials.
Commenting on the new bins, Mike Brymer, chief officer for Hinckley and Bosworth, said: Our residents are extremely committed to recycling. In response to their feedback we have improve the quality of recycling containers, which has made the scheme even easier.
Service
Palm Recycling has increased its fleet of four split-body vehicles to five, to service the new scheme, as it anticipates an increase in the amount of material collected for recycling. The borough moved from stillage vehicles to the split-body ones when the dual stream service was introduced.
Commenting on the service Alex Walsh, Palm Recyclings facility manager, said: The flexible nature of the service that Palm Recycling has implemented with Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council has allowed for increased savings and the opportunity to achieve optimum recycling rates.
Contract
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The kerbside collection contract in Hinckley and Bosworth has been held by AbitibiBowater since 2004. The companys collection arm was purchased by Palm Recycling in February 2010 after it went into administration (see letsrecycle.com story).
Since then Palm Recycling has won several contracts including a collection contract in Sefton, Merseyside (see letsrecycle.com story).
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