Recycling rates are well below the national average
Roughly £1m is spent by Nottingham City Council every year on financial penalties caused by contaminated recyclable waste. The authority’s waste services visit 31,950 properties across the city every day to collect different types of waste.
If more than 15 per cent of the recyclable waste delivered by the council to the recycling plant is contaminated, a financial penalty is incurred, which is paid to the waste contractor. During a Communities and Environment Scrutiny Committee on October 4, Mary Lester, the director of resident services, said the penalties incurred cost the council around £1m every year.
To help combat this and the city’s low recycling rates a ‘Municipal Resources and Waste Strategy for 2023 to 2050′ has been drawn up. This method would require a new type of bin lorry. More than 30 per cent of waste collected in Nottingham’s green bins is food waste and separate food waste containers would be provided in both cases.
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