SORT IT PLUS Plastic bottle & cardboard kerbside recycling trials |
The Somerset Waste Partnership is introducing trials for cardboard and plastic bottle kerbside recycling from May 2008 until March 2009. The trials will cover a total of about 7,500 homes in Mendip, Sedgemoor and Taunton Deane. |
Somerset's award-winning SORT IT collection will also be introduced to the trial areas in Sedgemoor. With the addition of plastic bottles and cardboard, the new collections are being called SORT IT PLUS.
We will be testing new approaches to collecting a wide range of materials for recycling and composting, which will involve comparing different service options and testing innovative new collection vehicles.
At the end of the trial, decisions will be taken about continuing the new arrangements and, if affordable, extending the best collection options to other areas. |
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Trial Rounds
The SORT IT PLUS trial rounds will be introduced in the areas listed below. Please note the trial rounds will be largely self-contained but will not necessarily cover all households in these areas. Customer Services Centres will be provided with a full list of roads and properties covered in their Districts.
All households covered by the trials will receive leaflets and an extra green box for the separate storage and collection of cardboard and plastic bottles. The additional box stacks neatly with most recycling boxes previously provided in Somerset. |
| Mendip |
Chilcompton
Kilmersdon & Mells
Street (Oakfield Road area)
Wells (Welsford Avenue area) |
| Sedgemoor |
Axbridge
Burnham on Sea (Priory Gardens, Steart Avenue, Lundy Drive areas)
Catcott
Cossington
East Brent
Eastertown
Edington
Lympsham |
| Taunton Deane |
Comeytrowe (Queensway area), Taunton
Langford Budville
Nynehead
Priorswood (Obridge Road area and Nerrols Farm), Taunton
Staplegrove Road area, Taunton
West Monkton |
Trial rounds have been selected to cover both urban and rural areas and to be comparable by containing similar proportions of the main socio-economic groups found in Somerset. This will establish the conditions for producing valid results from the trials. |
What you will receive if you are part of the trials:
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Mendip and Taunton Deane residents chosen to take part in the trial will receive:
- an additional recycling box for plastic bottles and cardboard only.
Sedgemoor residents chosen to take part in the trial will receive:
- an additional recycling box for plastic bottles and cardboard only;
- a kitchen caddy and small bin for food waste;
- and, if your property is suitable, a wheeled bin for your refuse.
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| Recycling |
Plastic bottles and cardboard need to be kept separate from other materials for recycling, as shown below. Cardboard should be flattened and it helps to squash plastic bottles.
Please try to keep different materials separate in your box, rather than mixed together, as this makes it much easier to sort for recycling.
Carrier bags can also be used to put out extra recyclables alongside boxes. Cardboard can also be put out bundled or flattened in a cardboard box. |
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Box 1 - YES please:
Paper: including newspapers, magazines, leaflets, printed paper, white envelopes and telephone directories
Glass bottles and jars
Food and drinks cans
Aluminium foil - clean (not paper or plastic backed)
Clothes - bagged to keep dry
shoes - tied in pairs and bagged
Car batteries
Please rinse jars and cans.
Please do not put clothes and shoes out on a wet day.
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Box 2 - YES please:
Plastic bottles only no tops
Cardboard (flattened) including corrugated, cereal packets and cards
Brown envelopes
NO thanks:
Drinks cartons or Tetra Pak
Broken glass, Pyrex, window glass, tableware, light bulbs
Plastic pots, tubs or film
Plastic bottles used for engine oil and garden or DIY chemicals
Household batteries
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Weekly food waste
Small food waste caddy
Keep the caddy in your kitchen. Newspaper can be used to wrap food waste or to line kitchen caddies. Special starch-based compostable liners can also be purchased from retailers throughout Somerset.
You can put the following in: Any raw & cooked food. Meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, bread, pasta, cereal, tea bags, coffee grounds, cheese and egg shells.
Large food waste bin
The large food waste bin locks when the handle is fully forward. This prevents pests from getting into it.
You can line the large bin if you wish with newspaper or approved compostable liners.
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Fortnightly refuse
Grey wheeled bin
Household waste that cannot be collected for recycling or composting should go in this bin.
No garden waste or bulky, heavy or hazardous items. |
| Trial Vehicles |
Two new vehicle designs will be used for the collections vehicles, referred to as a 3-way split and stillage for all. |
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The new 3-way split vehicle will be used to collect food waste in a pod behind the cab at the front and plastic bottles and cardboard in two separate compacting chambers at the rear.
This vehicle will be used Sedgemoor and Taunton Deane. |
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A stillage collection vehicle will be used to collect the paper, glass, cans, foil, clothes, shoes and car batteries on trial rounds in Sedgemoor and Taunton Deane.
These vehicles have long been used for recycling collections in Somerset and are able to collect a wide range of recyclables, which are sorted into separate removable cages, known as stillages. |
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The stillage for all collection vehicle will be used on trial rounds in Mendip.
This is a new version of the stillage vehicle that maximises the volume of material that can be collected by storing the light weight but bulky cardboard and plastic bottles on a second level. |
Enquiries |
For general enquiries about the SORT IT PLUS trial collections in your area, please email:
enquiries@somersetwaste.gov.uk
For enquiries about the SORT IT PLUS trial collections in your area, please contact:
Mendip District Council: 01749 648999
Email: customerservices@mendip.gov.uk
Sedgemoor District Council: 0845 408 2543
Email: customer.services@sedgemoor.gov.uk
Taunton Deane Borough Council: 01823 356346
Email: waste.services@tauntondeane.gov.uk
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