The caddies will be rolled out as part of the boroughs new waste collection scheme which will see the introduction of food waste collections as part of a renegotiation of its 14-year contract with Veolia.
The new service is expected to begin in April 2012 and will see over 51,000 properties receive a seven-litre kitchen caddy and a 23-litre kerbside caddy.
Food waste collections have already been trialled with 10,000 households across the borough in Farnham, Godalming, Cranleigh and Haslemere.
Commenting on the new contract Jonathan Straight, chief executive of Straight, said: We are delighted that Waverley has chosen to continue to use our range of food waste products for their full scheme rollout. The tonnages collected demonstrate what a great collection system our kitchen caddy and kerbside caddy is, especially when used together.
We are positive that Waverley will see a further significant increase in its recycling rate once the scheme is fully implemented.
Service
As part of the new service Waverley is moving to a commingled collection of dry recyclables. This will continue to be collected fortnightly on alternate weeks to residual waste. Currently dry recyclables are collected in three boxes as part of a source-separated kerbside collection.
It is hoped the new service will increase the boroughs struggling recycling rate which for 2010/11 was 38%.
Commenting on the impact the scheme is hoped to have councillor Bryn Morgan, executive and portfolio holder for the environment at Waverley, told letsrecycle.com: The recycling rate is struggling to get up to 40% but with the new collections we are hoping to increase it to 60%. We want to go from having a low recycling rate to having one of the highest.
Cllr Morgan also said that the reasons behind the service change were increasing public pressure to increase its recycling rate, costs savings and the environmental benefits of sending less waste to landfill.
Uptake
While Cllr Morgan remained positive that the recycling rate would increase he stated that the roll-out would cover the whole borough, including isolated villages, where the council expects the uptake may not be as good as in the built-up areas where food waste collections have been trialled in.
The roll-out will take it borough wide which will include a large number of isolated villages. Its difficult to know what the uptake will be like as people in the countryside tend to have at-home composters so we receive less material from those areas.
Bristol
The Waverley contract represents the latest big win for Straight in the south of England. In November 2011 Straight won a contract with May Gurney (see letsrecycle.com story) to supply more than 268,000 waste and recycling containers to Bristol residents as part of its waste collection contract with Bristol city council.
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