Tuesday, February 9, 2010
City food waste bins may cost up to £900k
Giving every home in Wolverhampton a new bin to recycle food waste could cost up to £900,000, it was revealed today.
The city council has applied for cash from Government-backed Waste and Recycling Action Programme (Wrap).
If the bid is successful every home in Wolverhampton could get a 25-litre bin, dubbed a caddy, to put food scraps into from next March. The funding would only be granted if the council successfully implements food waste into its recycling activities by March 2011.
Today it also emerged residents would be offered an optional five-litre kitchen bin for food waste for an extra, as yet undisclosed, fee.
Councillor Barry Findlay, cabinet member for the environment, said today he wanted to encourage people to compost their food waste. “People can already put vegetable peelings and raw fruit and vegetable waste into compost bins,” he continued. “These caddies will let them put the rest of their food waste in as well and we will take it all away and recycle it.
“If people want to carry on composting at home as well then that is even better. We will provide people with biodegradable bin liners that will make it easy to store the food waste and it will mean their caddies will not smell.”
According to a council report, the food waste will be taken to an “anaerobic digestions plant” where it will be broken down and made into compost.
Proposals will go before councillors on the sustainable communities scrutiny panel tomorrow. Reports also reveal the authority will need to spend £1.175 million in 2011 to replace all eight of the lorries it uses to collect recyclable waste.
It costs £12.73m a year to run Wolverhampton’s bin collections through a partnership between the city council and private company Enterprise. Last week the Express & Star revealed Wolverhampton City Council plans to reduce the size of wheelie bins for residual waste in 2011.
Bosses will give all 97,000 a 140 litre wheelie bin in place of the current 240 litre one.
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They need to get the system they have got right before go on to new things got missed again phone up was told will return in 2 days guess what no one came. Phone aging told to put out in 2 weeks time. Ask for senior person to call still waiting for the call.
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I would like to know where we are supposed to keep all these recycling bins. I only have a finite amount of space.
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What a load of rubbish!!!
Truly annoyed and fed up with the bins I have got already!
We burn our rubbish in Wolves so whats the point and how are they likely to recycle food waste??? They can’t feed it to animals – would be unsafe.
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No way will I be re-cycling food in this way.I’ll eat it first.
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Refuse collection and street lighting are just about the only services that most people would miss if local authorities disappeared over night. (Education, funded by the tax we pay to central gov, doesn’t seem to count as a local authority service.)
It seems that even the Tories are determined to punish the electorate, the taxpayers, by making the service people value most more complex. Why do we need smaller black bins? I rarely fill mine as I recycle extensively but if they plan to halve my black bin size I want a similar reduction in council tax.
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Don’t blame Wolverhampton City Council. These are EU regulations (such as the Landfill Directive) foisted upon this country in which local authorities have little choice but to enforce.
Now, good people of Wolverhampton and eleswhere, understand exactly what happens when your governments sign away your right as a sovereign people to govern yourselves by laws passed by your own parliament. No wonder they didn’t ask for your opinions of the Lisbon Treaty, which now extends EU law-making competence to far more areas of our national life – including removing this country’s right to decide our own energy and immigration policies.
PS Express & Star – instead of putting these stories up as routine council-knocking stuff, why don’t you dig a little deeper and tell your readers exactly why this is happening.
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The truth is about recycling it makes big money for other organisation’s. only 10% is recycled. it all go into a plasma incinerater which drives a steam turbine to produce electricity then the recycling companie’s sell the power to local electricity grids. so they get rich and we get ripped off for our power.
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The truth is about recycling it makes big money for other organisation’s. only 10% is recycled. it all go into a plasma incinerater which drives a steam turbine to produce electricity then the recycling companie’s sell the power to local electricity grids. so they get rich and we get ripped off for our power.
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ray i agree with what your saying but it seems like the uk is the only one that abides buy any eu rules on all manner of things
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i don,t mind the bins its great that we can do our little bit but can we have a proper bin for the plastic as those bags are a waste of time
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where is all this money coming from i thought we were going through a bad patch what happens to the old bins i think they should bin this idea pardon he pun
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I’d be happy to take a Wormery, then the council would not have to take any food waste away.
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I think Wolverhampton Council are a money grabbing lot, no matter what they keep bringing in for recycling the council tax NEVER goes down.
They say recycling is to keep the cost of using land fill down, but we do not see these benefits come back to us, instead it goes in their pockets.
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again last wednesday 25th i put out my white bag and again no one came! but the girl on the fone tells me they have!!!! what day would the council not be coming for the new recycle bin?
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Council Planning to Spend £900k on another rubbish scheme. Last month anouch almost 200k was being spent on giving out flip flops to drunken city revlers. Yet just days ago revealled they got no money for the REGENERATION Of the Train Station. something which i’m sure every household would rather see.
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Arn’t all these new bins/boxes tripping hazards?
(see Council, Sandwell, under Gnomes)
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Householders with gardens should compost kitchen waste.
Older members of the public will recall when food was scarce and precious – and -no food was ever wasted. Something not eaten one day was concocted into another meal the next day.
So these bins not necessary for most of the town.
Suggest the council start this scheme for blocks of flats only
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What I want to ask is why oh why are they spending no sorry wasting money replacing the current 240 litre bins with 140 litre bins. Whos ludicrious idea is that, what then happens the all the plastic bins they are replacing??? Why not use these bins for cardboard and cans and use the green boxes for the then limited normal refuse waste. I feel sorry for those people who have no room to keep them and the eldery/vunerable people who struggle to put out 1 bin never mind 3-4.
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