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Plans to Improve Kerbside Recycling Agreed by Cabinet

Posted on : 19 Oct 2023

Plans to Improve Kerbside Recycling Agreed by Cabinet
Caerphilly County Borough Council are on a mission to boost recycling rates and this week Cabinet have unanimously agreed plans to improve kerbside recycling quality and tackle contamination.
 
In a Cabinet meeting, which took place on Wednesday 18th October, Members agreed the implementation of an enhanced education and engagement process which incorporates letters, home visits and, in a small number of cases, the option to serve legal notice on persistent offenders of recycling contamination.
 
The borough’s current method of collecting recyclable material at kerbside includes a brown wheeled bin for all mixed dry recycling. Whilst this method results in the capture of significant dry recycling tonnage, the nature of the containers provided result in a minority of residents placing inappropriate waste into their recycling bin.
 
There are currently high levels of contamination within the borough’s brown recycling bins, with 20-23% of all waste collected at the kerbside for recycling is not able to be processed as recycling.
 
Local authorities are required to meet strict Welsh Government recycling targets and Caerphilly is working hard to ensure it reaches the forthcoming target of 70%, as well as even higher rates announced for the coming years.
 
Cllr Chris Morgan, Cabinet Member for Waste, Leisure & Green spaces said: “I’m very happy with the result of today’s Cabinet meeting.
 
“Whilst we appreciate that most of our residents are already working with us to recycle correctly every week, there is a small minority who use the design of our brown wheeled bin to knowingly dispose of non-recyclable materials.
 
“This aim of this new process is to ensure that the work of those residents who are consistently doing the right thing does not go to waste.”

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