AROUND 215,000 bins are to be wheeled out to Stockport homes over the next six months.
Residents will eventually have four bins to recycle their household and garden waste.
A new blue bin will take paper, cardboard and drinks cartons, while a brown bin will replace the recycling box and paper sack for plastic bottles, glass, cans and aerosols.
The two 180-litre bins will be joined next year by black and green bins. Black bins will be for general household waste and the green bins will take garden and food waste. At present the food waste goes into blue bags but from next year it will go into the green when the disposal system is fully up and running.
Householders should also receive an information leaflet outlining the new collection times for the bins.
The replacement scheme will cost Stockport Council £7m to help shift the current 112,000 tons of waste a year.
The project, which was a decade in the planning process, is aimed at increasing recycling figures for a whole array of waste products from homes as well as slashing the amount of rubbish going into expensive landfill.
Stuart Jackson is the man charged with rolling out the bins per household by the end of next year.
"The people of Stockport are very good a pushing up the recycling figures and, at 39 per cent plus, we were well ahead of the target that we set ourselves," he said.
"We are hoping that the new system of bins and processing of the waste will drive us still further forward."
Food waste will be disposed of on a weekly basis.
"It means more costs for the authority but it believes that it will be well received by the residents and it will be appreciated," said Mr Jackson.
Around 15,000 blue bins have already been delivered to householders in High Lane, Hazel Grove and Bramhall.
Over the next few months the bins will be introduced to all parts of the borough.
Next month, bins will be delivered to Cheadle Hulme and Heald Green with the rest of the borough following.
Delivery schedule for blue and brown bins:
- June – High Lane, Hazel Grove, Bramhall (around 15,000 bins have been delivered to High Lane, parts of Hazel Grove and Bramhall so far)
- July – Cheadle Hulme, Heald Green
- July/August – Cheadle, Gatley, Adswood, Davenport, Greater Moor
- Aug/September – Marple, Compstall, Romiley, Woodley
- Sept/Oct – Cale Green, Brinnington, Edgeley, Heaton Moor, Heaton Mersey
- Oct – Offerton, Hazel Grove, Bredbury
- Nov – North Reddish, Reddish, Heaton Moor, Heaton Chapel, Woodford, rural areas
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Dennis the Menace, Hyde (18/06/2009 at 00:58)
I wonder ............ does this all get recycled then ????, just how much still goes to landfill ????? ...........
Rick D'alaglio (18/06/2009 at 10:09)
And you needn't be sceptical about whether the recycling is really going into landfill - believe me we know if it was because landfill tax (which increases year on year) would vastly increase the level of council tax we'd all be paying if it wasn't.
noname togive (18/06/2009 at 10:32)
Rick D'alaglio (18/06/2009 at 12:07)
Jo14, Somewhere on planet Earth (18/06/2009 at 16:08)
Although I agree with recycling, and applaud the council's efforts to get us all doing so.....it's wholly impractical for my household to support 4 bins (although I only need 3 - I don't have garden waste).
At the moment, I take all of my recycling to Morrisons anyway, as someone swiped my black box - and the kitchen bin is big enough for us to use weekly with a blue bag. I don't NEED big bins like this.
And I, for one, haven't been consulted, so am assuming other comments on here are either sarcastic or extremely tongue-in-cheek!
Dennis the Menace, Hyde (19/06/2009 at 01:08)
Regards
Dennis
Frank Garth Rowe (19/06/2009 at 12:58)
Frank Rowe, West Australia
Senior Expat Brit/Stoconian.
Perhaps Stockport Council ought to liaise with Perth WA Council!!??..for advice!!
Banana Boy (19/06/2009 at 19:42)
Wheely bins really do make an area look very council estate.
Has anyone seen the fines they plan to impose if we don't religiously put our waste in the correct bin?
I'm going to have to spend time each night sorting my rubbish so it can all be dumped in one large landfill site. Great!
Rick D'alaglio (22/06/2009 at 13:16)
Those stating that the waste is just going to landfill anyway perhaps ought to find out more about the wide range of new waste management facilities which the GMWDA are currently investing in - including at Bredbury - which will increase their capacity to dispose of waste using means other than landfill. There is also a plan being developed to make sure that there are adequate facilities to deal with Greater Manchester's non-municipal waste in the future.
Failing to recycle more is not an option - landfill tax increases year on year and so just tipping it in landfill is more expensive than investing in proper alternatives.
I know some people don't like having extra bins - and having taken the time to ask the question of the Council I'm sure they appreciate that also. The problem appears to be (as it always is) that people ignore all the information they've been given in advance of a new initiative and then complain when it happens, rather than reading the information and taking the opportunity to find out how it will affect them in advance. My neighbour has no garden and therefore does not have space for 4 bins so, when we first found out about the proposal, she called the Council who went around and worked out an alternative for her. The point is that if people had read the information that has been readily available then, rather than complaining, they would have known they could contact the Council and discuss it - but, unfortunately, that isn't in the nature of most people. I guess I'm just lucky to have the spare time available!
RedGreenInBlue, SK4 (25/06/2009 at 15:00)
I suspect many living on "council estates" will take offence at that snobbery.
And which gives an area an appearance of civic pride: heaps of refuse bags, sometimes ripped, piled up in the road, or clean and tidy wheeled bins?
pkallott, Manchester (30/06/2009 at 12:32)
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