Councillors to consider six month trial for plastic and cardboard collection

2:46pm Thursday 13th September 2012 in News

COUNCILLORS are to consider giving the go ahead to a six month trial to collect plastic and cardboard from the kerbside.

If it is given the green light, householders in the trial areas of Burneside and parts of Kendal would receive an information leafle.

It will include details of the additional materials to be collected and the method of collection. More than 7,000 properties are included in the trial area. The first collections of plastic and cardboard would start week commencing October 15.

Householders would be provided with a clear plastic sack for plastic recyclable materials that would be replaced with a new one after each collection. Cardboard would be placed in the blue paper recycling box and all the additional materials would then be collected with the glass, can and paper on the householder’s normal recycling collection day. Coun Clare Feeney-Johnson, portfolio holder for the Environment, said: “We have listened to request from local residents for kerbside collections of plastic and cardboard.

“The initial trial of 7,500 properties will allow us to monitor tonnages of the materials, the collection methods, the response of residents and the effects on the recycling bring sites and financial implications into the future.

“Our residents have an excellent track record and commitment to recycling in South Lakeland and I am hoping that this trial will encourage people to help increase the recycle rate and help make better use of our natural resources.” The proposal for the collection of plastic and cardboard from the kerbside for an initial trial period of six months will go before the SLDC’s Cabinet on Wednesday (September 19). Further details and the Cabinet report can be found on the council’s website at www.southlakeland.gov.uk.

Comments(13)

snuggle-bunny says...
2:59pm Thu 13 Sep 12

Is this some sort of joke, they cant even manage bottles, cans and papers? I can only hope that whoever is in charge of recycling makes a better job of this than their previous effort, or lack of it. Sadly I doubt it

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oceancloud says...
3:14pm Thu 13 Sep 12

I don't seem to have any problems with the bottles, cans and newspaper collections.If we are included in this trial it will be worthwhile as I collect all my plastic and cardboard and take it to the tip every few weeks. It will save me a journey.

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snuggle-bunny says...
5:46pm Thu 13 Sep 12

I understand it it council policy to take a maximum of one wheely bin and one bag of household rubbish on refuse collection day? when I enquired about this I was told it was to promote recycling and cut down on the amount of rubbish people throw out. Why is it then that several of my neighbours are putting out 5 or 6 bags,on a regular basis, many of which contain recylcable material which the council offers a collection service for? This makes a mockery of the recycling policy and it obviously isnt being enforced. Not once have I seen anyone from the council making any sort of effort to enforce recycling. Think I'll just throw everything in my bin instead

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snuggle-bunny says...
5:47pm Thu 13 Sep 12

As for saving you a journey- I take it you go shopping occasional and I take it the supermarket where you go shopping has a recycling bank so it's not like you have to make a journey anyway

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life cycle too says...
7:18pm Thu 13 Sep 12

They should adopt the French system, where ALL recyclable material is put in one container - the "TRI" and then sorted out centrally.

Barrow tried this and achieved a huge increase in the amount of material being recycled instead of just being dumped!

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tictoc1 says...
9:45pm Thu 13 Sep 12

My way of recycling is by putting it on the fire. If it doesn't burn, it goes in the bin. Why? It can get very windy where I live. I was fed up of putting the blue boxes out, with a brick on top, the bin men would empty the contents and not put the brick back on the box, hence my boxes blew away! Several times!

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snuggle-bunny says...
5:34pm Fri 14 Sep 12

With regards to life-cycle's comment. Such a system would require a certain degree of intelligence and proffesionalism, qualities which seem to be lacking at sldc. But hey the tax payer is paying

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wezzyk says...
8:58pm Fri 14 Sep 12

I take paper, glass, cans, cardboard and plastic to the recycle station, compost and sort as much as i can elsewhere to tip. I am not particularly green but try to put the wheelie bin out as little as possible as the bin guys seem incapable of putting it back where they found it. I am told exactly when, where to leave my bin, otherwise it wont be emptied but yet they cant return it to the edge of my property but leave it in the middle of pavement for people to bump into and knock over. Ill have a free box though it will come in handy for something. I like the burn it idea though.

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HardJelly says...
11:56pm Sun 16 Sep 12

Currently when I put my green garden waste bin out it just gets emptied into the back of the wagon with the regular black bins. I'd hope if this new system is introduced the same wouldn't happen!

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lakesman says...
8:07pm Mon 17 Sep 12

think you ll find sldc are good at recycling, snuggle, it is one bag and the bin but most crews will take more , its not the law to recycle , cant understand why hardjellys green bin goes with the gray cos one week its green then gray so why is your green bin out and your next doors has his gray out

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snuggle-bunny says...
10:50pm Tue 18 Sep 12

get a reality check

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lakesman says...
3:04pm Wed 19 Sep 12

please explain with why a should take a reality check

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ukmann says...
6:35pm Wed 19 Sep 12

In Germany where I now live, the collection of plastic is tendered out to a private company. Once a year they bring round a large roll of yellow bags. In the yellow bags go all plastics, metal tins and empty milk or drink cartons and are picked up every fortnight. The council earns a considerable amount of money for the tendered contract and don't actually do anything apart from allow the contracted company to pick the bags up from the private addresses. Might be an option ...........

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