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Extra recycling bins for South Staffordshire homes
Friday 20th January 2012, 11:00AM GMT.
An extra wheelie bin is on its way to homes in South Staffordshire under £900,000 plans revealed today – taking the total to three.
The blue box and bag for recyclable rubbish will be replaced by a single blue bin under proposals by the district council to cut the volume of waste sent to landfill.
It will go alongside the existing grey wheelie bin for household waste and green ones for garden rubbish.
Council bosses today admitted the cost was significant, but say they hope the change will boost recycling in the district.
If approved, the new bins would be delivered to homes by April 2013.
The changes come as the council’s contract for waste and recycling, held by Biffa Waste, is due for renewal next year.
In its 2012/13 budget the council is suggesting putting aside £900,000 to pay for the new bins.
It will also replace some of the existing 240-litre grey household bins with smaller ones if requested by residents. Extra grey waste bins would also only be given to families with six or more people free of charge.
Smaller families who opt for an extra bin will have to cover the cost of the bin and its delivery.
Across South Staffordshire almost 50 per cent of rubbish is recycled.
Councils are charged a landfill tax for every ton of waste they send to landfill.
In Stafford and Cannock, residents have a green bin for general rubbish, a blue bin for recyclables and a brown bin for garden waste.
On the prospect of a third wheelie bin, Jackie Smith, director of environmental services at South Staffordshire Council, said today: “We think this will help make our service even better. It offers good value which is important for us, and it will also help our residents to recycle even more.”
By Shaun Lintern
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What a waste of time and money. Have the council considered what an eye sore all these extra bins are going to cause, especially with terraced properties which usually lack a front garden?
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Wolverhampton residents did`nt get a choice of “requesting” a smaller bin for household rubbish, we were just given one & told thats it,240 litre grey bin for recycling & tiny brown bin for household rubbish. As for smaller families who want an extra bin they have to pay towards it ON TOP OF THE COUNCIL TAX they already pay!
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ITS ABOUT TIME PEOPLE TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR RUBBISH INSTEAD OF MOANING ABOUT THE LITTLE INCONVENIENCE TO THEM.
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I think its a great idea,the volume of our general waste has gone down significantly since we started recycling. I agree that it could be an eye sore but how do they cope today with the smaller recycling bins
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Time to bring back the spirit of the Victorian era. Faced with a problem like mountains of waste that need sorting, they wouldn’t expect households to do it, no! They’d invent a Marvellous, Mechanical Sorting Machine to sort all the waste in a factory. They could create jobs for people to do this?
And why are these bins always blue? Why not brick coloured to blend in with houses?
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Great news! We moved from Cannock where we had a blue wheelie bin to an area served by South Staffs and find that we’re now less inclined to recycle quite so much now we’re back to using the box and bag system.
One blue bin with a lid on it is far better than a couple of the recycling boxes with badly fitting nets, meaning the plastic containers can blow away, and a white sack.
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Great news! The sooner the better. No more paper flying around the street from the blue boxes and more room to recycle and the wheelie design is much easier to move around than the boxes when full. I hope this blue bin is just for cardboard and paper as if we have to put in the green box waste too, then we’ll need two of these bins in our house and our neighbours probably would too. Good work South Staffs.
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Nice one! Now we will be able to have yet another neighbours yucky bin returned in error!
Does this mean that the grey bins will only be emptied every three weeks when this comes into play?
Where do they think people are going to put all these plastic monstrosities?
Bring back open fires I say and burn all the newspaper, cardboard and potato peelings just like our grandparents did – they didn’t have the problem on such a large scale then.
Better still, bring back the local milkman, baker, grocer, butcher etc buy only what is needed, cut down on the packaging and problem halved.
Perhaps Domestic Science and household management should be taught again in schools.
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We need them sooner than next year!
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What a WASTE (excuse the pun) of money!
Almost £1m for new bins is almost £9 per household at a time when everyone is facing austerity measures.
How anyone can claim this will save money is beyond me! If you are going to recycle, you will do it anyway and we don’t need a new bin. You only have so much waste that can be recycled and this will make no difference at all.
3 bins on the drive will look awful too!
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i can see this story from 2 sides .1 being i am 1 of the binmen that have to empty the blue/green boxes and white bags..the problem with these is that for some houses there is not enough of them so they just throw the rubbish all over the floor and expect the binmen to pick it up… so yes the wheeled bins will be a god send for that…no rubbish all over the streets and no more ear ache off our bosses when they get phone calls saying WE have left a mess!!!the other side is the cost yes it will cost nearly 1 million pound but south staffs is not just your street it is a pretty big area..great wyrley/perton/wombourne/kinver..etc etc..so overall better service,cleaner street happier residents…
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