New Recycling Rules
From early October the majority of the 33,000 households across the district will receive a new blue-lid recycling wheeled bin and two food waste caddies.
New contractor Serco Ltd will collect food waste weekly on the same day every week, and, on that day, they will also empty on alternate weeks the existing grey household waste bin one week and the new blue-lid recycling bin and existing green-lid garden waste bin together on the other week.
Properties not suitable for wheeled bins will use a blue box and two blue bags to recycle, and properties currently using black sacks for waste because of access issues will be able to recycle for the first time using a combination of bags and boxes. Compostable garden waste sacks will be available to all properties that cannot accommodate wheeled bins.
Currently most Dales households have two collection days – one for household waste and one for recycling – but this will change to a single weekly collection day when the new collections kick in. It means some collection days may need to be changed but, full instructions and a collection calendar will be included when the new containers are delivered in October.
The new blue-lid bin will be used to recycle tins, cans, glass bottles and jars and, for the first time, plastic bottles and containers, foil trays, aerosols and beverage cartons. An insert that sits in the top of the blue-lid bin will be used to recycle paper and cardboard. Additional paper and cardboard can be recycled using existing blue bags.
The smaller of the two new food caddies is designed to be used in the kitchen, with the contents transferred to the larger lockable kerbside caddy for the weekly food waste collection.
To summarise:
* Two new food caddies – a kitchen caddy and a kerbside caddy – will be placed alongside the new blue-lid bin on delivery.
* The blue-lid bin will have an insert for paper and cardboard.
* A roll of optional compostable kitchen caddy liners will be in the food caddy.
* A detailed instruction pack including a new collection calendar will be inside the food caddy.
* A bag to recycle household batteries will also be inside the food caddy.
* When residents receive the new containers they will be allocated a collection day on which to put out waste and recycling.
* Food waste will be collected weekly.
* Recycling, household and garden waste will be collected fortnightly.
* Properties currently on black sack collections may not be suitable for a blue-lid wheeled bin so will have a blue box to recycle cans, glass, aerosols, beverage cartons and foil trays and two blue bags, one to recycle paper and cardboard and the other to recycle plastic bottles and containers.
More information is available online at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/waste and on the Waste Helpline 01629 761122 or by email waste@derbyshiredales.gov.uk
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I’ve just got it!!!!! – It’s brilliant in its simplicity!!!!
And there was me labouring under the delusion that the lunatics had really taken over the asylum and invented THE most ridiculously complicated waste management system designed purely for people who have little else in their lives but to plot themselves from one caddy to the next coloured bin to the next insert (!) AND remember what day they need to leave it out…….
But No No Nooooooo!!!! – these people are not navel gazing bureaucrats – they have simply devised a system so fiendishly complicated such that no-one in their right mind could possibly
understand it with the obvious result………… nobody dares create any waste!!!
BRILLIANT.
PS I’m emigrating.
So does that mean we need to bin our old blue bins?
I think we are the only family excited about getting something to put our cardboard in! Roll on October!