Ealing Council Announce Multi-Million Refuse Package |
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Wide-ranging improvements to refuse and recycling services
Ealing Council’s Cabinet approved wide-ranging improvements to the borough’s refuse and recycling services on Tuesday. We asked Jason Stacey whether, in the light of all the controversial discussions about fortnightly rubbish collections, he would be considering such a move. He replied:
"Ealing will be staying with weekly collections." In a bid to cut down on rubbish left out too early, special signs will be put up setting out each road’s collection day and times from January 2008. And, as part of the Council’s mission to improve street cleanliness refuse and recycling will take place on the same day, so that street cleaning can take place the following day.
Recycling services will also benefit from added investment. Garden waste collections will go weekly from November, making it even easier for green-fingered residents to recycle. Re-usable garden sacks will replace the disposable pink sacks. This will mean that people will always have sacks whenever they want to garden. Moving to reusable sacks will also save the Council money. New sacks cost 50p each and have a three-year life while existing sacks cost 35p and can only be used once. Other improvements include the introduction of plastic recycling to household collections. To make it as easy as possible for all homes to recycle the Council will collect all plastics with the exception of garden furniture and toys. Plastics will then be sorted so that as many items as possible are recycled with non-recyclable products taken out for disposal.
Council Leader Jason Stacey said: “The recent consultation shows that people feel very strongly about refuse and recycling collections. We promised to listen to what people wanted as well as really trying to find out what worked well and what didn’t. The package we have come up with aims to provide a much better standard of service to all residents while keeping things a simple as possible. As a result, all collections will take place on the same day and any problems should be sorted out on the day they are reported. To make recycling as easy as possible we’ve expanded services so that people can recycled most things from home.
May 3, 2007 |