Salford City Council launches food waste scheme
Salford City Council (SCC) has begun a new weekly food waste
collection scheme as part of a recycling overhaul, to help increase
recycling rates and ‘reduce the costs of sending waste to landfill’. This comes after SCC’s plans to invest in improved food recycling facilities for all Salford residents were approved in 2010.
Weekly Collections
Under the new scheme, residents are being asked to deposit their food
waste into pink-lidded garden waste bins, which were delivered in
March, or 23-litre external food caddies if they do not have a
pink-lidded bin.
Salford residents have been encouraged to deposit their food waste in
garden waste bins rather than the weekly refuse collection bin since
September 2011, but, until now, the food waste bins had been collected
fortnightly. Under the new policy, collected food waste will be sent to be
recycled at Rochdale, Stockport, Tafford or Bolton’s In-Vessel
Composting (IVC) facilities. The recycled compost will be used as
fertiliser throughout the northwest.
According to SCC, the new service ‘will allow [residents] to recycle
more and could reduce the cost of waste disposal by over one million
pounds a year’. The changes to food waste collections will run alongside fortnightly
collections of blue bins (paper, cardboard and drinks cartons), brown
bins (glass, cans and plastic bottles) and black bins (non-recyclable
waste).
“Much easier to recycle”
Speaking of the launch of the new scheme Councillor
Gena Merrett, Assistant Mayor for Housing and Environment, said: "Food
waste typically makes up a third of the average household bin where
people don't recycle or compost it. It currently costs the city over £17
million to send this waste to landfill and if we don't change this will
continue to go up each year. It makes perfect sense to change the
service to boost recycling and save money.
Adding that weekly collections will ”make it much easier to recycle,
not least because all the bins will be collected on the same day from
now on”, Merrett went on to outline the frequency of collections under
the changes to the recycling scheme
“Food and garden waste goes in the pink-lidded bin or outdoor food
bin which will be collected every week. Paper and cardboard which goes
in the blue bin and glass, plastic bottles and cans which go in the
brown bin will be collected every two weeks. Anything else, which can’t
be recycled at a household waste centre, goes in the black bin, which
will be collected every two weeks.”
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