Target 45 Plus

Council launches brown bin trial

== Fri 4th January ==

More than 20,000 households in the East Riding will take part in a brown bin trial for garden waste from March.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is launching the trial in two areas, Driffield and Haltemprice. It could eventually be rolled out across the East Riding.

Councillor Stephen Parnaby, leader of the council, said: “This service shows we are listening to residents as it is what they have been asking for, a convenient way of managing their garden waste.

“Garden waste is a major issue for this council. It makes up nearly a third of all the waste going into the green household bin.

“That is a lot of garden waste going to landfill and we will soon no longer be able to afford to do that.”

He added: “I feel sure this launch will mirror that of the blue recycling bin across the East Riding two years ago. Since then collections of paper, cans and plastic bottles have helped us treble our recycling rate.”

The Driffield trial area includes Hutton Cranswick, Bainton, Middleton on the Wolds, Tibthorpe, Nafferton, Harpham, Kilham, Ruston Parva, Beeford, Brandesburton, Seaton Sigglesthorn, Catwick, Catfoss, Arnold and Long Riston.

In the Haltemprice area, brown bins will be delivered to households in Anlaby, Kirk Ella, West Ella, Swanland, North Ferriby and Willerby.

The trial is an important part of the council’s Target 45+ campaign aimed at encouraging residents to reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill by recycling at least 45 per cent of it.

Failure to achieve this target by 2010 could result in the council being faced with Government imposed penalties and fines of about £9million.

The brown bins are for grass cuttings, hedge and shrub trimmings, plants and flowers. The collected waste will be composted.

The bins will be collected fortnightly, April to November, and monthly during December to March. This will be in addition to the normal weekly green bin collection and the four-weekly blue bin collection.

Next month a letter will be sent to all properties involved in the trial listing the dates of roadshows open to all residents.

Delivery of the bins starts in early March, along with a calendar of collection dates and information as to what materials should go in the bin.

Last summer the council promoted the ‘don’t bin it, compost it’ message, urging residents not to dump garden waste in the green bins.

Despite this, green waste continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing the council. The recent waste composition survey showed 27 per cent of the contents of the green bins is still grass cuttings, hedge trimmings and branches.

For more information:
Gillian Pattison
Press Office
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Tel: 01482 391450

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