According to the waste awareness Chief of Wales, councils should be offering smaller mobile bins to encourage customers to recycle more frequently. Waste Awareness Wales is asking all twenty two local authorities in Wales to offer bins which are twenty five percent smaller than the ones currently used. This would follow a plan used in England, in which households were given smaller bins with wheels to encourage more frequent recycling and to make it easier. However, these bins, which some are calling “bonsai bins” are causing a bit of controversy as well.
Even though most experts in the industry feel that smaller, mobile bins will lead to increased recycling, some residents are concerned that the smaller bins could cause some unforeseen problems. Some worry that the smaller bins will tip more easily and that the smaller size will lead to residents overfilling the bins. If bins are overloaded some fear that waste will spill out and will be left at the roadside by rubbish collectors. However, with the UK struggling to meet its goals for recycling and waste management, innovative plans will need to be adopted if the country hopes to succeed.
Wales has outlined a plan which it thinks is the most ambitious recycling plan in all of the United Kingdom. The directive calls for seventy percent of all household, construction, and commercial waste in Wales to be recycled or composted by the year 2025. Currently the Welsh are only coming in at about forty percent of these types of waste being recycled, so to reach the goal of seventy percent will take innovative ideas like using smaller bins to get people to recycle more frequently.
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