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Fortnightly bin collections to go ahead
Adam Derbyshire11/ 8/2008
FORTNIGHTLY black bin collections WILL be rolled out across Tameside, it has been revealed.
Councillor Catherine Piddington, environmental chief, has rubber-stamped the move, designed to force everyone in the borough to recycle their waste.
The trial schemes currently affecting 8,000 households in Stalybridge South, Audenshaw, Newton, Werneth and Ashton’s St Albans will now be expanded.
The ‘managed collections’ will see black bin collections limited to once a fortnight and different coloured bins for recycling given to all homes across the borough by March.
Green bins are for mixed glass, with red sacks for plastic bottles and cans, blue bins for waste paper and brown bins for garden waste. Anyone refusing to recycle could face a hefty fine.
Robin Monk, head of environmental services, said: “Thousands of leaflets will be posted out to homes explaining how the collections will be carried out.
“We will collect the black bin one week and the green bin the following week. The sequence will continue throughout the year. Everyone will have the correct bins in place before the collections are rolled out.
“People do have to manage their waste in a responsible manner. But the trials proved it can easily be done.”
By 2010, 30 per cent of all rubbish collected must be recycled or the council will be hit with huge costs to bury it in landfill sites.
Town hall chiefs want to force more people to recycle so they can meet the targets set by central government. And the borough is on course after figures revealed 26 tons of waste (27 per cent) is being diverted to recycling every week.
The government has set staggered recycling targets of 40 per cent by 2010, 45 per cent by 2015, before ultimately reaching 50 per cent by 2020.
In the five trial areas the figures already hover between 45 and 55 per cent.
Mr Monk added: “That puts us among the best in Europe.”
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