South Gloucestershire council has unveiled plans to start alternate week kerbside collections in January 2004 for recyclables and residual waste.
Working with its waste contractor SITA UK, the council will collection garden waste and cardboard in a green wheeled bin and newsprint, glass, cans, aluminium foil, textiles, car batteries and used engine oil in a green box. The collections will initially cover 12,000 households.
Although the new collections will not include plastics, the council's four bring sites will accept plastic bottles, including plastic bottles, drink cartons and milk containers from January.
Councillor Shirley Potts, executive member for community services, said: “We are delighted that plastic bottle recycling will run alongside the new service. It will allow residents to recycle even more and, at the same time, help to reduce the amount of space that would otherwise be taken up by plastics.”
Lichfield expands collection fleet for festive season
Lichfield district council has hired four extra Kerbsider recycling collection vehicles from Municipal Hire Services (MHS) to cope with the increase of recyclable materials over the Christmas period.
The council has hired the vehicles on a temporary basis to collect the additional glass, paper and plastics generated over the festive season. The council is also planning to collect for recycling used Christmas trees in the brown bin collection in the New Year.
Ysanne Williams, senior sustainable development officer at the council, said: “This year we have introduced a scheme to shred and recycle Christmas trees and have arranged with MHS to increase our Kerbsider recycling fleet by four vehicles in order to keep on top of the extra bottle, paper and plastics refuse that will need to be collected for recycling between Christmas and New Year.”
Matt Buckley, refuse division manager at MHS, added: “While the majority of our vehicles are hired on a long-term contract hire basis, our volume of stock vehicles makes us flexible enough to be able to meet our customers' seasonal requirements in handling so much extra waste.”
Barnsley launches Christmas waste awareness campaign
Barnsley metropolitan borough council has launched a festive recycling promotion campaign.
Barnsley council has become the first local authority to use the festive promotional material from Bankit. Christmas themed waste awareness campaign resources, such as posters, bus stickers and leaflets, were unveiled in October 2003 by Bankit, which is sponsored by Glass Recycling UK and Rexam Glass (see letsrecycle.com story).
Councillor Margaret Morgan, cabinet spokesperson for environmental service at the council, said: “Our vehicles are used extensively throughout the borough and by incorporating the promotional materials on their sides we can cost effectively communicate the benefits of recycling to many people. We are very pleased to be working in partnership with Bankit to increase the amount of waste we recycle.”
The campaign is using the sides of sixteen council vehicles, including six kerbside collection vehicles, to display the Christmas themed recycling message
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