Stratford-on-Avon District Councils new refuse & recycling service is changing from Monday 6 April maintaining a weekly kitchen waste disposal service, but with a twist!
The changes to new service from 6 April will be:
- The re-introduction of the green bin service
- Kitchen waste will be accepted in the green bin for composting*
- Grey bins will be collected every other week*
*Kitchen waste will be collected every week, one week in with your general waste in your grey bin, and the next week with your green garden waste in your green bin.
But there is no change to your collection day.
From 6 April your Green Bin will take all kitchen waste, which includes cooked and raw:
- Vegetable peelings
- Fruit
- Food scraps
- Meat and fish including skin and fat
- Bones
- Cereals and grains
When you place kitchen waste in your green bin it will all be composted, so please dont wrap them in plastic; place it loose in your Green Bin with your garden waste or wrap them in paper or junk mail.
*Composting food waste instead of sending it to landfill will help reduce the District residents carbon and methane footprint.
A maximum of two Green Bins will be collected from your property and a chargeable service is available at £40 a year for the collection of each additional bin. Please contact 01789 260925 for more details or to book this service.
The new service aims to:
- Decrease the use of landfill
- Increase recycling and composting
- Provide better value for money
This popular services reintroduction will be welcome news to many residents across the District, and I would like to thank them for being patient over the winters temporary suspension, says Councillor Simon Jackson, Portfolio Holder for Environment.
Governmental and EU targets are set to reduce quantities of waste going landfill, particularly organic material that decomposes to produce harmful methane gases. The District Council has already tackled dry recycling by introducing the blue lidded bin, which now accepts cardboard, cartons (such as Tetra Pak) and plastic bottles, in addition to glass jars and bottles, paper and tins and cans and we will continue to scan the horizon to increase the range of materials being collected for recycling.
With the re-introduction of the green bin service, the District Council is able to offer a composting service which will now include kitchen waste in with your garden waste. This means that there will be less organic waste sent to landfill reducing the prospect of a Landfill Penalty being passed on to residents. In times of credit crunch, I am sure that this is welcome news to the District Council Tax payer.
*696 compost bins have been purchased between 1 April 2008 and 28 February 2009 from Warwickshire County Council please click link for further information on home composting - http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/(DisplayLinks)/C6E60D10B0D1E5A480256A4D004809CA
