People who have blue wheeled bins will keep their green boxes, currently used for glass, cans and paper, for glass-only collections. Norwich hopes that by collecting new recyclable materials, and only collecting residual waste every two weeks, its recycling rate will leap from 19.8% to 32% by 2010.
Chris Eadley, environmental services manager at Norwich city council, said: “We are really pleased to be able to offer these extra services to people. The addition of plastic bottle recycling has been wanted by residents for a long time and now it is here we hope people will take advantage of the scheme and recycle as much as possible.”
Facilities
Under Norwich's new recycling scheme, only homes which have suitable space will be getting wheeled bins. Each property in the city has been surveyed to see if it is appropriate and properties such as flats will be provided with different facilities, yet to be announced.
Cllr Brian Morrey, executive member for environmental impact and chair of the council's members' waste working party, explained: “We will be providing people who are currently on plastic sack collections with a wheelie bin for their refuse wherever possible, and will stick to a weekly collection of refuse in areas that are staying on the plastic sack system.”
The new recycling service will be delivered by Norwich's waste collection contractor Citycare, which is owned by Veolia Environmental Services, and is expected to be rolled out to all parts of the city by around the end of 2008.
Collection calendars and information about collection days are being delivered to residents with their new bins, and the council's environmental services team have been door-knocking in the phase one area to answer questions about the service.
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