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FROM NNDC - The way forward for waste |
NNDC is looking at two options for collecting and
disposing of household waste, to meet tough new Government targets for recycling.
The government has ruled that councils must double the amount of household waste they
recycle by 2003/4. |
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In North Norfolk, where the district Council's 'Same Day, Same Place' recycling scheme
has been running since1997 and getting positive results. Which means the amount of waste
recycled must jump from the 14% level in 1998/99 (now actually standing at 15%) to 28% -
and then even further in 2005/6.
The Same Day, Same Place scheme cannot be 'tinkered with' to accommodate the kind of
volume of recyclables the Council must now deal with. So in September last year, the
Council asked its residents to choose between 5 options (all of them more expensive than
current arrangements) involving different combinations of types and sizes of rubbish
container, and different frequencies of collection.
The questionnaire was sent to all 50,000 North Norfolk households, and an astonishing 23%
of them were returned. The most popular option (Option 1 of the five, the first choice of
28.7% of households) is to have a weekly collection of a 140 litre wheeled bin for normal
waste and a fortnightly collection of a 240 litre wheeled recyclables bin (at an estimated
extra cost of £21.64 per household a year).
The Council's Waste Working Group considered the consultation responses in November, and
recommended that another of the options also be considered because it is cheaper, but
still involves the use of wheeled bins (which were popular among respondents - 79.1%
wanting wheeled bins of same size).
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| This system, option 4, would see an alternate fortnightly collection using a 240 litre
wheeled bin for normal refuse one week, and a 240 litre wheeled bin for recyclables the
following week. This would cost an estimated extra £10.04 per household a year.
Last month, the Council's Executive Committee discussed the consultation responses, the
recommendations of the Waste Working Group, provisional cost estimates for all five
options, and a draft wheeled bin policy. |
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