Brown bin recycling of household waste hits new council record

A RECORD 54 per cent of a council’s household waste was recycled and composted in April.

According to East Riding Council residents have embraced with enthusiasm the new brown bins which take cardboard, food and garden waste. The figure includes the first collections from brown bins in Holderness, Driffield and Bridlington.

The roll-out of brown bins to all 150,000 households is expected to be completed by July 1.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

In April, 3,759 tonnes of waste was collected from the East Riding’s brown bins – 35 per cent more than the previous month.

The waste is composted at Melbourne near Pocklington and used as a soil improver on farmland and blended in with soils to create sportsturf.

The council is handing out free bags of compost to residents, starting on July 4 at Hilderthorpe coach park, in Bridlington.

Coun Symon Fraser said: “It goes to show that the collection of food waste and cardboard in the brown bins is just what our residents wanted.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

“Once the roll-out is completed towards the end of June, we are expecting to keep even more of this waste out of landfill, saving our taxpayers the increasing cost of landfill taxes, while protecting the environment.”

Residents in the Boothferry area, including Goole, Howden, Snaith and surrounding villages, will start receiving caddies from next Monday, and the roll-out will take up to two weeks.

Other compost giveaways will take place at Finkle Street car park, Market Weighton, on July 5; Broadway car park, Hornsea, on July 6; and West Park, Shaftesbury Avenue entrance at Goole, on July 7.