Recycling service to be revised after complaints

A RECYCLING service which is due to be rolled out to nearly every household in York is having to be revised after complaints from residents.

The fortnightly recycling collections are expected to be extended to more than 16,600 additional properties during the next few months, although York Council has admitted that officers will need to continue to hone the system.

A total of 3,000 homes in the Leeman Road, Poppleton Road and Acomb neighbourhoods started to receive fortnightly waste and recycling collections in April, as part of the citywide roll-out of the scheme.

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While the collection system has been based on the results of a trial in the Groves area of the city, a number of residents were unhappy with the changes – particularly at having to carry refuse to the front of their homes for collection.

York Council's executive is due to approve plans on Tuesday next week for the authority's waste and recycling team to continue to work with residents to develop options best suited to particular areas.

If agreed, residents in Beaconsfield Street, Gladstone Street and Milner Street will be given a choice of whether to use wheeled bins or sacks, and whether refuse is picked up from the front of their property or from a central collection point.

A task group, involving councillors, council representatives, North Yorkshire Police and local community groups, is due to be set up in the Leeman Road area to help residents to review the scheme and suggest changes.

The Yorkshire Post revealed in May that York Council was planning to extend recycling collections across the city to avoid having to pay millions of pounds in the Government's landfill taxes.