End to blue and orange bags as Derby City Council's cabinet confirms recycling changes

“Stop Wasting Food - Recycle clothes by remodelling or giving away to Charities. Buy only what is needed with minimum packaging! Wouldn't be much left to cause any problems would there!”

“Derby foe will find anything that sounds like its in there favour there just like MPs say what ever suits them:-)”

“There has been NO consultation on this or proper costings made of the money lost through contamination of recyclables ie paper and cardboard by glass shards, in the blue bin. This will end up costing more as the Council will be sending items for destruction instead of recycling They are also forcing people to use the blackbin for foodwaste, by charging for the brown bin. This will only please their contractual partners, the incinerator operators RRS/Shanks. Already putting one of the RRS/Shanks people in charge of recycling has resulted in a 2% drop in recycling and the City Council admits that foodwaste inthe blackbin will lead to a further drop (Written answers to public questions Dec 2012)

RRS/Shanks are planning to build an unproven, polluting, experimental incinerator for the blackbin waste and commercial waste, in Derby. The Derby prototype incinerator in the Isle of Wight, is to be shut down next year as it breached dioxin emissions limits by 800% and was beset by 'technical problems' from the outset, including having to use thousands of litres of diesel fuel, to 'help' the burn. Sinfin already has Air Quality Management Areas for particulates and nitrogen dioxide, both to be worsened through another incinerator, the one for nitrogen dioxide by a 'significant' amount (Derby City Co Environmental Health Officers.)

By a 'coincidence' the Health Protection Agency is to start a study of increased birth defects (known to be caused by dioxin) in the vicinity of such 'modern' incinerators, in the year this one is supposed to be operating. The areas surrounding the industrial Sinfin site already suffer high rates of infant mortality. Why sign up to UK Sustainabilty Objectives and the Persistent Organic POllutants Treaty (to reduce the creation of dioxin, not increase it.)?

Derby and Derbyshire Friends of the Earth”

“How to make a pigs ear out of recycling: just add a pinch of DCC. Complete incompetants.”

“what a waste of money all this has been!, why not use our brown we have now for this new venture (instead of shelling out more in council tax next year) for a new blue one which we all don't need or have room for? we can scrap the collection of the blue bin and have my black maggot infested bin (hot months only i'm not dirty lol!) emptied every week and the brown one every 2 week or so?
who runs the council has no idea about recycled and saving money, obviously!!!”

“Will the new bins be sourced in this country or imported again?”

“"If we are to get bigger blue bins delivered what happens to the existing smaller ones? We don't all have "room for a pony" to store these things."

chop the wheels off and put it in the bigger bin?”

“If we are to get bigger blue bins delivered what happens to the existing smaller ones? We don't all have "room for a pony" to store these things.”

“Saving what saving how could they save any thing they spend millions to save over years but with in that many years they come up with another stupid idea costing more millions so forgoing any saving that they would never save in the first place - heres a ider give us two bins one black and a green bin then give us a weekly collection for the black bins and burn it in that nice new thing destind for sinfin hehe - then collect the green bin once every two weeks and take it to normanton for all the EU welcomed imigrants to sort out - now then they will be usefull wont they and theyll be earning the benifits they get”

“Great news. No more messing about with bags for cardboard and paper.

If this is the way to go new blue bins would be needed. The current ones are not big enough to take all the items listed.”