Clippings from the garden could be the next kind of waste to undergo recycling in Great Yarmouth as the council targets to increase the rate of recycling by twice the current rate by the year 2020 and to avert rising landfill taxes.
Council officers are considering a scheme where the residents could put their vegetable peelings and green rubbish into a new bin that would be collected on Saturdays every once in two weeks.
The council’s portfolio holder for the environment, Jim Shrimplin said the advantages of such an initiative were under examination but emphasised that it was a plan that would take two years prior to implementation. Jim Shrimplin revealed that the report being compiled by the officers looking into the garden waste recycling scheme would be out in a fortnight.
The council’s portfolio holder for the environment also hinted that the council might be forced to make the garden waste recycling service a ‘paid for’ service. Mr Shrimplin further disclosed that the twin bin system had enabled the borough to attain an approximated rate of recycling of twenty seven per cent. He also expressed confidence that the council would meet the goal of recycling thirty per cent of waste by the year 2010 and fifty per cent by the year 2020.
The borough recycling officer, Rob Cole, verified he was studying a garden waste initiative while at the same time feeling grateful to the locals for their recycling endeavours. He disclosed that the amount of glass waste being delivered for recycling had tripled.
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