Derby household waste overhaul aims to make recycling second nature
AN overhaul of the household waste system in Derby aims to "make recycling second nature".
The new system is set to do away with the controversial orange and blue bags.
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City councillor Ranjit Banwait with one of the new recycling bins which are set to go out to all the Derby City residents from March 25 onwards.
If approved by the city council cabinet, from March 25 about 80,000 new blue bins would be delivered across the city to be used for recycling glass, plastic, tins, paper and cardboard.
The council says this would save the tax payer £500,000 a year – with the new 240 litre bins costing £2.2 million – and make recycling easier for householders, who have criticised the existing orange and blue bags for cardboard and paper, which have been blown around the streets.
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Councillor Ranjit Banwait, deputy leader of the council and cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said: "We want to make recycling second nature and this new system will do that.
"The current system is simply not working and this new one us simpler and also cheaper for the tax payer."
Residents would no longer have to separate recycling to put it in their blue bin and bags – they will be able to put it all in the new blue bin.
But the new bins would not be used until June 3 – until then residents will have to use the current system.
Tim Clegg, director of Derby City Council's Street Pride, said: "This system will mean people will recycle more, will mean fewer crews on rounds and less fuel being used, which will all lower our carbon footprint."
There would be a drop from 16 crews to 12 but the council says there would be no compulsory redundancies due to early retirements and voluntary redundancies.
Mr Banwait said that the council had been forced to make "unprecedented" cuts in its budget and that the new system would save "a huge amount of money."
The old bins would not be collected later in the year and Mr Banwait said he was aware this delay in the changeover might add to the continuing problem of bins being left on the street.
He said: "We understand that some people will struggle with having the extra bin. But it is something that we are looking into with some pretty radical ideas but we need residents to work with us on this."
The new blue bin scheme is expected to win final approval at a city council cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
And next year, households in Derby will have a change in the collection of their brown bins, which currently take both garden and food waste.
From 2014, households that want a brown bin collection will have to pay a £40 charge and the bins will only take garden waste.
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by Wafty
Friday, March 15 2013, 8:27AM
“ignoring all the 'dodgy' claims being made by the council regarding huge savings (conveniently, it would appear, ignoring the additional costs), could someone please explain how it is possible for the scheme to be formally approved next Wednesday and the bins to start being delivered less than a week later?
The real world doesn't work like that - there will have to be a significant lead-time between the contract being signed and the first bin being delivered - the whole idea that this scheme is still up for negotiation and formal approval is a smokescreen - it's a done-deal and the people of Derby are (yet again) being taken for fools by those in charge.....”
by Pine_Martin
Thursday, March 14 2013, 10:28PM
“by dianae
"Pine-Martin - do you know the current cost of landfill"
Who cares? We will soon have a nice new inci9nerator, lets use it to full capacity - build a second if needed.
By the way - the only "cost" of landfill is to the EU. If our government had our iteress at heart we would be out of the EU. No more taxes - and no more immigrants. TWO damn good reasons for leaving the EU.”
by dianae
Thursday, March 14 2013, 8:29PM
“Pine-Martin - do you know the current cost of landfill? Smoking is the same as burning £10 notes but landfill is same as burying a whole stack of £50 notes in a very soggy deep hole.”
by SarahL123
Thursday, March 14 2013, 7:07PM
“@Derbyborn
Lol not wine, no, but plenty of milk cartons.
We do flatten what we can, but we try to recycle everything possible, so there are times when the smaller bin isn't quite big enough for us. Give it 20 years when the last of my children have flown the nest and I'll be complaining the bin is too big ;-)”
by Pine_Martin
Thursday, March 14 2013, 6:19PM
“More eco nonsense from the eco-loons who promote daft recycling schemes despite them being a complete waste of time.”
by DerbyBorn
Thursday, March 14 2013, 6:03PM
“SarahL123 - how do you fill the bin. Do you try to reduce the size of anything before putting it in the bin - or do you drink a lot of wine?”
by Tamas
Thursday, March 14 2013, 1:46PM
“As our tiny island spends millions on eco schemes, the Americans, Indians, Chinese and a fair few other continue to pump all sorts of **** out without batting an eyelid. We're wasting or time.”
by derbydelphis
Thursday, March 14 2013, 1:27PM
“How is a £40 charge going to make recycling second nature? More likely it will make putting everything in the black bin for land-fill second nature.”
by MadeInDerby
Thursday, March 14 2013, 1:11PM
“More waste of tax payers money - how much is the actual cost please? this is all just smoke and mirrors - the real cost of replacing all the bins is going to be far greater - and it will probably take 10 -15 years before the tax payer starts to see any real savings.
British made bins? dont be daft - they will be from Germany no doubt - Labour is never local !”
by SarahL123
Thursday, March 14 2013, 12:23PM
“@Http_404
I stand corrected - yesterday's article didn't make that clear (admittedly I didn't read this one properly), it simply said these new bins were to replace the bags currently used.
I hope they intend to recycle the existing blue bins though. I have asked, more than once, for a larger capacity blue bin, looks like I'm finally going to get one, but will need to put more stuff in it!”