Cllr. Robbie Fenton pictured in March 2012 campaigning for plastic and cardboard recycling to be introduced in Sefton
We Lib Dems have been pushing Sefton Council to bring this in for a long time and at last the Labour-run Council is taking action. My colleague Cllr. Nigel Ashton has been seeking out information about the roll out of this recycling initiative and the consequences of it. Here are a few pointers as to what is going to happen and where to find more information:-
Cllr. Nigel Ashton
* Information mailings should drop through Sefton resident’s letter boxes from 21st February until 11th April.
* Brown bins should be delivered to properties from 17th March through to the 27th April.
* The new collection service will start for some residents from 31st March and all should be on it by 28th April.
* Under the new collection arrangement the brown and grey wheelie-bins will be emptied on an alternating pattern (Tuesday to Friday) with green wheelie-bins being emptied on a fortnightly basis between February and November on Saturday or Monday, each household will receive a collection calendar which identifies the day/date and colour of bin scheduled for collection.
* Something to bear in mind – There are around 14,000 properties within Sefton which have access/storage issues and therefore do not receive the current or future (Residual/Plastic&Cardboard) Alternate Weekly Collection (AWC) wheelie-bin service, the vast majority of these currently receive a weekly collection of residual and recyclable waste.
* At this stage the search facility on Sefton’s website provides current collection arrangement information only (grey/green w/bins) however this will be replaced by the new collection information (Grey/Brown & Green w/bin collections) just prior to each phase commencing.
* Sefton’s website does however contain information about the introduction of plastic/cardboard collections and the ability to look-up when the first brown-bin collection (for a specific property) is scheduled to be provided;
www.sefton.gov.uk/bins-recycling/changes-to-recycling-and-waste-services.aspx
Here’s hoping I have not got any of this information around my neck!
I am delighted at the good news about polythene and cardboard recycling and congratulate those concerned. I am a newcomer from Colchester (another good Lib Dem town!)and was appalled when I moved here at the limited nature of the recycling and the airy way in which, when I took stuff to the recycling centre at the way in which they told me that they did not ‘do’ ordinary polythene – which I am now putting into a sack, ready for April.
This gives us yet ANOTHER piece of information to give people on the doorstep before May!
Can’t wait till I get my bin. I have already reduced the amount of grey waste over the last few years. Most fortnights it is only half full. There are two adults in my household so I understand the picture is different for families and larger households. Hopefully this will reduce the the number of grey bins I see with cardboard and plastics sticking out of the top.