Topic: | Re:Re:Wheelie bins again | |
Posted by: | Rima Jones | |
Date/Time: | 08/08/15 13:56:00 |
More. The bins were piloted in Hounslow in summer 2013 and there are currently 29,000 in use. The recycling rates have actually fallen in the last year, from 37.4% at the start of 2014/15 to 35% in the last quarter of that year. Hounslow has the worst recycling rates in West London. No-one is suggesting that enforcement officers should peak into everyone's garden. Banning black sacks and supplying addressed sacks for scanning and paying if they contain recyclables would be an effective way of educating for generations to come and vastly increase the recycling percentage without unsightly bins. It would also include flats over shops. How can the councils justify not doing so when it would save millions on bins ( Ealing included ), hugely increase recycling beyond EU requirements, save millions on disposal costs, receive ROCs through anaerobic digestion for food waste, plus revenue from fines? Food in food waste bins ( or pay ) would mean no foxes either. |