Recycling in Area 6

1. Recycling in Area 6 Bethany Pugh – Recycling Officer

2. Recycling in Nottingham – Where we are now. • In 2006/07 • Managed 165,000 tonnes of municipal waste. • We reached a combined recycling/composting rate of 28% • 53% of our waste was recovered through Eastcroft waste to energy plant. • Recycling Scheme • We currently have 73,000 properties on our brown bin scheme for the collection of plastics, paper, cardboard, cans and tins and garden waste on an alternate weekly basis. • Of the remaining properties all but 15,000 receive a fortnightly collection for paper through the blue bag scheme. • We currently have 69 local recycling sites across the city which collection paper, cardboard, cans and tins, glass, textiles, tetrapak and plastics.

3. Recycling Pressures: • Waste Steering Group • 50% recycling of household waste by 2018. • 90% Recovery (40% to EfW) • 10% Landfill • Manifesto Commitments • To double recycling to 40% by 2011 • To provide a kerbside collection service to all households for 4 materials including glass. • Statutory Commitments • To provide kerbside collection service to all households for 2 materials by 2010 • To remain LATS (Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme) positive.

4. What we need to do to achieve this The remaining 55,000 properties who require further recycling services consists of: - High rise flats. - Large proportions of terraced housing (Meadows, Forest Fields, Sneinton). - Deprived housing estates (Meadows, St Anns, Radford). - Multiple Occupancy, Students and Transient Populations (Lenton, Arboretum). To Tackle the challenges that these areas represent we have put forward proposals to trial some collection strategies in 11,000 properties in areas 4 and 6.

5. Councils Future Plans: • Undertake a trial on 11,000 properties • 5,500 in Sneinton - to cover terraced housing. • 5,500 in Area 4 – covering the Arboretum (HMO), Radford (Deprived housing estates) • Offering fortnightly plastics, cans, tins paper and cardboard and glass, with a weekly food waste collection. • This work will provide us with a model to roll out across the remaining 21,000 properties, based on lessons learned from the trials.

6. Councils Future Plans: • 12,000 more for brown bin 2008/09. • There are still pockets of properties that can receive the brown bin system with a collection for garden waste. • Improvements to recycling sites. • We are currently doing a full review of our local recycling site service to determine the effect of kerbside recycling on the recycling sites and to highlight areas where the service needs to be strengthened. Two new on street recycling sites going into Sneinton in the next few weeks. • Flat recycling • Decide on a case-by-case basis what to do with flats and implement this by Dec 2010 (~ 17,000 properties across city). 2,500 in 2008/09 – will include some in Area 6, Currently looking at Victoria Centre Flats. • Education and waste minimisation city wide campaigns • The recycling team is being strengthened – two new recycling officers started in Feb. • The Waste Strategy out for consultation. • It is hoped that the strategy will be out for consultation in the next financial year. The implementation plan will be looked at again to include the collection trials in Area 4 and 6.

7. Pilots – High densityhousing • Issues: • Public acceptability of Alternate Week Collections • Lack of storage space for containers • Houses of multiple occupation • Multicultural communities • Sneinton (5,500 properties) • - Terraces with potential storage issues • - Multicultural • - Priority Neighbourhood • - Community lobbying

8. Range of materials • Mixed dry recyclables fortnightly – paper; card; plastics; cans/tins (textiles; plastic film) • Glass fortnightly (insert or box) • Residual waste fortnightly • Food waste weekly

9. Public acceptability of Alternate Week Collections • Education and consultation: • We need to demonstrate that by removing sufficient materials to recycle, then residual waste is effectively managed through fortnightly week collections. • How do we achieve this? • Waste Audit – what are people in these communities throwing away? • By collecting paper & card, plastic, textiles, glass, metals and food waste. Potentially 75% of bin can be recycled • Food Waste – by keeping the putrescible waste on a weekly cycle.

10. Lack of storage space for containers? • Offer choice of receptacles for collection of recyclables: • Bins, boxes or bags? • Must be compatible with current collection methodology. • Bins on Streets • - Alleyway Clearances. • - Promotion of Keys. • - Education on policy • - Enforcement Already piloting this in the Park, St. Anns and Lenton.

11. Sneinton Project Team • Working party with representative from Ward Members, Neighbourhood Management Team, Waste Management, Envirocrime, Street Scene, Neighbourhood Wardens, School and Police involved. • Five meetings since December • Discussing issues such as • Education, • Communications, • Consultation, • Enforcement, • Bins on Streets, • Community involvement, • Containers, • Partnership working and many more! • Visit on 11th March to Preston City Council – to learn about other Councils experience. • Members briefing on the 13th March – update on progress of the project team.