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Smaller bins on way
31/ 7/2008
A package of measures aimed at boosting recycling and reducing waste has been approved by Rushmoor Borough Council’s cabinet.
In response to residents’ views, the council will keep its weekly household refuse collection service, but will replace the borough’s aging 240-litre green wheelie bins, many of which are now 20 years old, with new 140-litre bins.
It will continue to offer a free fortnightly blue recycling bin collection service but it will also extend its kerbside glass-recycling scheme, which now covers 35 per cent of Rushmoor’s households, to the rest of the borough.
In addition, the council will be exploring the possibility of giving residents more choice in the containers available for its chargeable garden waste recycling service.
This package of measures will be supplemented by a continuing education and information campaign to encourage residents to recycle as much as they can. The cabinet decided that enforcement, while possible, will be used very much as a last resort.
The borough’s recycling rate is currently 26 per cent and its target is to reach 40 per cent by 2010.
Last year, Rushmoor ran a six-month trial where 6,000 households had their rubbish and recycling collected on alternate weeks. While the trial proved successful in increasing recycling rates to around 36 per cent, the cabinet did not feel there was sufficient support from residents to introduce alternate weekly collections borough-wide.
In response to residents’ views, the council will keep its weekly household refuse collection service, but will replace the borough’s aging 240-litre green wheelie bins, many of which are now 20 years old, with new 140-litre bins.
It will continue to offer a free fortnightly blue recycling bin collection service but it will also extend its kerbside glass-recycling scheme, which now covers 35 per cent of Rushmoor’s households, to the rest of the borough.
In addition, the council will be exploring the possibility of giving residents more choice in the containers available for its chargeable garden waste recycling service.
This package of measures will be supplemented by a continuing education and information campaign to encourage residents to recycle as much as they can. The cabinet decided that enforcement, while possible, will be used very much as a last resort.
The borough’s recycling rate is currently 26 per cent and its target is to reach 40 per cent by 2010.
Last year, Rushmoor ran a six-month trial where 6,000 households had their rubbish and recycling collected on alternate weeks. While the trial proved successful in increasing recycling rates to around 36 per cent, the cabinet did not feel there was sufficient support from residents to introduce alternate weekly collections borough-wide.