Waste Strategy - options for future kerbside collection service
Current kerbside waste and recycling service
Waste type | Frequency of collection | Container type |
Household waste | 2 weekly | 180 litre bin |
Recycling | Weekly kerbside | 2 x boxes |
Garden | 2 weekly | 240 litre bin |
Food | Weekly Co-collect | Food bin |
Future kerbside waste and recycling service
A number of options for our future kerbside waste and recycling service have been considered based on the following criteria:
- Impacts on residents including ease of use
- Cost
- Environmental impacts
- Service flexibility - ensuring we can adapt to changes in technology, the economy and meet our climate change ambitions
Two options we are considering are:
Option A
Waste type | Frequency of collection | Container type |
Household waste | 2 weekly | 180 litre wheeled bin |
Recycling | 2 weekly | 2 x wheeled bin |
Garden | 2 weekly | 240 litre wheeled bin |
Food | Weekly | Food bin |
Option B
Waste type | Frequency of collection | Container type |
Household waste | 3 weekly | 240 litre wheeled bin |
Recycling | 3 weekly | 2 x wheeled bin |
Garden | 3 weekly | 240 litre wheeled bin |
Food | Weekly | Food bin |
Option A
Week 1 Food waste and household waste.
Week 2 Food waste and Recycling
Option B
For example, your collection schedule may look like this:
Week 1 Food waste and general household waste
Week 2 Food waste and recycling bin A
Week 3 Food waste, and recycling bin B.
What is the difference between option A and option B?
- Garden recycling and waste will be collected every three weeks in option B compared to every two weeks in option A.
- Of the two options, option A will require more vehicles, therefore have increased carbon emissions and cost more to deliver.
- Option B will require fewer vehicles, reducing our carbon emissions and cost less to deliver.
- Option B would achieve a higher recycling rate compared to option A.
- For option B, you would have a bigger household waste wheeled bin.
Note that both option A and option B save money and emissions compared to the current scheme. Option B would also achieve a higher recycling rate compared to the current scheme.