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Date set for new recycling boxes
Tuesday 30th September 2008, 11:44AM BST.
Families in Wolverhampton will start getting new boxes for recycling plastics and cardboard in three weeks’ time, the Express & Star can reveal.
The scheme, which is costing taxpayers £150,000 yearly, will see the boxes sent out to households from October 20 and fortnightly collections start two weeks later, from November 3. The move, which has drawn some criticism because it means residents will have to sort their rubbish three ways, has been on the cards since the Tory-Lib Dem alliance came to power in May.
All 98,000 homes in the city will get a new plastics and cardboard box by the week starting October 27 and the council says collection of them will take place on the same day as standard rubbish pick-ups.
The announcement comes as a sceptical Danish author said today that Britain’s efforts to reduce global warming will cost huge sums and have a pitiful effect.
Bjorn Lomborg says the UK’s efforts to reduce global warming would cut temperatures by just one 3,000th of a degree by the end of the century.
Wolverhampton’s new collections follow a wave of pressure from the Government to get town halls across the country to recycle more.
It means residents have to sort recycling into a green bin for garden waste, a green box for dry recycling like newspapers and a white box for plastics and cardboard.
The recycled plastic and cardboard will be taken to a centre in Wednesbury. Weekly collections for general rubbish go to an incinerator in Crown Street, Wolverhampton.
Councillor Barry Findlay, deputy leader of the city council and environment boss, said: “I am delighted. When we took control of the council in May we made this one of our main pledges.
“The new boxes for plastics and cardboard will start to be delivered on October 20 and by the following week all 98,000 homes in the city will have one.
“We are going to arrange it so that the collections for plastics and cardboard take place on the same days as the regular rubbish collections.”
Elsewhere, a pilot for recycling plastics and cardboard along with glass, cans and paper in one bin was launched in August to 7,000 homes in Sandwell.
Neither cardboard nor plastic are accepted in Dudley or Walsall bins.
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Complaints about having to sort rubbish three ways? Get real! What a sad reflection on the selfish society we live in!
Rubbish has been sorted 4 ways in South Staffs for many, many years so stop whinging!
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black wheelie bin,green wheelie bin and now 2 re-cycle boxes.Where’s it going to end? I’m finishing work so I can sort out all my rubbish properly.I once made a mistake so they did’nt empty my re-cycle box so I re-cycled my re-cycle box and now don’t own one.
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Come on Dudley Council, lets have the same.
It does not make “green” sense for me to drive to the local tip to deposit my cardboard in the re-cycling skip.
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So as i live in a big old house that is split into 6 flats. Does this mean we will all get a Bin ?. Because currently we have 2 black bins and one green bin and one recycling box between the lot of us which is frankly a joke.
And the council never ever empty the recycling box.
They will be fining us next for not putting the right stuff out on the right day.
Then they will start emptying the bins once a month.
And Does this mean that we will have 3 separate lots of waggons rolling round the borough each only collecting one type of rubbish ?.
Yes it all sounds great for the Environment.
The Council are a bunch of Clowns
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About time. dont always have time to take plastics and cardboard to the tip
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I hope the plastic and cardboard ones are big because I could fill one of those small ones in a couple of days,I would be better off with a small wheelie bin.
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good idea about time to.
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Well all of those moaning about the sorting really want to shut up. At the end of the say in my home town they have been doing this since 1994 and have one of the highest recycling rates in Btitain.
I agree that the bin should be a wheely as the amount of plastic content in food stuffs is rediculas and i could fill it easily within a few days.
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its a joke. no 8 dont eat so mutch.
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What a lot of moaners Wolverhampton folk are! I have a brown bin for garden waste and compost material, a box for paper and card, a box for plastic, glass and metal and then an ordinary wheelie-bin which doesn’t get used very often. It’s not rocket science!
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Yippee about time.
I agree with TracyAdams, we might need two!
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We’ve been recycling ‘three ways’ in Birmingham for about 5 years now and Birmingham City Council has one of the highest recycling rates in the country. Good to see Wolverhampton are doing the same.
It doesn’t take much to sort out cardboard from plastic / glass etc. and think about all the tonnes of poisonous gas you’ll be reducing from landfill sites by doing so.
Every council should be offering this and every resident should be recycling as much as possible.
Some people are so lazy they’d rather the atmosphere was poisoned and more land swallowed up than be bothered to put a can or bottle in a box rather than a black sack.
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This is great news. I cannot understand people moaning – what’s wrong with sorting your refuse?
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put tin in green box put plastic in white
twigs and stick in big green bin right
dont forget that big black bin thats to put household rubbish in.
[ ALL JOIN IN THE BIN BOX RAP ]
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WHAT a lot of moaning people we have in Wolverhampton.
“I can’t be bothered to sort my waste”, It takes too long”, “Not worth it” all excuses I have heard in the past as to why people won’t recycle. Why are people so negative about recycling? I have recycled Cardboard & plastics for the past FOUR years and I live in Wolverhampton, albeit I have to take it over to border into South Staffs to do so, but so what if I’m going that way anyway.
Talk about a ‘nanny state’ these people who won’t sort their waste want everything done for them. Why won’t they just get off their collective bottoms and do something useful to help themselves and their community? They want a clean, healthy environment, but are they prepared to co-operate without making a fuss?
You must be joking!
The Wolverhampton Waste King.
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Sounds a load of Rubbish to me :)
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Can i just add my name to the list of people who are happy about this. Without the cardboard and plastic in my normal bin, I reckon that it won’t even be half full, and that fills me with a sense of pride. Knowing my rubbish is going to be used towards something usefull and not just sit in a hole in the ground for the rest of eternity is a good thing.
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we had a box full of cans and bottles and one ROGUE bottle on the top so instead of removing said bottle they left the lot so bo****ks to it,and it wasn’t even our bottle someone walked past and put it there during the time the box was out
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It’s taken long enough – we’ve been taking our plastic bottles and cardboard to the tip for years now
For those that have a garden, using a small compost bin should mean you hardly put anything in the black wheelie bin
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This is fantastic news! I’m really pleased as I asked my local councillor about this before the local elections, she promised to look into it and here we are. All the moaners need to sort it out, it’s no big deal to just think where you put your rubbish. The time will come when we are charged by the weight we put in the black bin, then even the wingers will recycle. (although to be fair, the stupid binmen and fine freaks who won’t remove one extra bottle are about to undermine all our goodwill)
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Glad to see this at last! So much useful material still goes into landfill or incineration in this country. Our ancestors would have been awestruck and incensed if they could have known how much their descendants would waste! Ironically, as an island nation, Brits used to recycle everything until the 1960′s. So it’s good to see us returning back to common sense again!
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I really can’t believe how gullible people are! Do you really think that having separate containers is really going to save the world? Nothing will change until the likes of China, Eastern Europe and the USA take drastic steps to reduce CO2 etc. All you people are doing is helping dumb councillors put another tick in a box to further their own careers. Just to rub salt in the wound – they’ll raise your council tax to do it. Wake up people!!
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Al (22) – you’re missing the point. Whilst this will have an (albeit marginal) effect on CO2 emissions, the main reason for it is to reduce the pressure on the decreasing space for landfill, and to reduce the Council’s liability to Landfill Tax, which they would have to pass on to Council Tax payers. So it’s better for the citizen in the long run for that reason.
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Nick (23) And the difference in cost between Landfill Tax and the cost of providing extra bins and facilities to recycle the waste is…??
I’m not against recycling I just think that there are better ways to do it such as a centralised processing plant, costly maybe in the short term, but long term more viable.
Additionally – what do you think the council will say if I said I will take all my recyclable rubbish to the processors myself so I would like a reduction in my Council Tax?
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Al (Post 22) As the phrase used by a certain supermarket goes… ‘Every little helps’ As for raising council tax, don’t get me started on that one, but just for the record they can’t raise it any more as they currently put it up the maximum they can already.
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