Garden waste collections will be brought back in-house by Newark and Sherwood District Council and the battery recycling scheme will be refreshed
Plans to improve and enhance Newark and Sherwood’s recycling schemes have been outlined.
From next year, garden waste collections will be brought back in-house by the district council and the battery recycling scheme will be refreshed by increasing the number of drop zones for residents to deposit spent batteries.
A spokesman for the council said: “We plan to relaunch the battery recycling scheme to make people more aware of it and to encourage people to use drop off points and local supermarkets and other stores if that suits them.”
A plan was announced to encourage residents to put the right items in the correct bins, although kerbside glass collection service will not be possible because of the costs involved.
Newark and Sherwood is second highest in Nottinghamshire for glass collecting, but it was made clear that introducing kerbside glass collections was a no-go because revenue costs would cost up to £½m a year, not including figures for the purchase and delivery of new containers, which would cost £25 per household.
A council waste manager, Matt Adey, said: “Our bring site collection rates are the second highest in the county after Rushcliffe’s but we are struggling to secure new sites and over the last decade we have lost a number of sites to redevelopment.
“We are looking at ways to increase the number of sites available on our own car parks and other suitable sites.”
The Advertiser asked why residents were unable to place glass into their recycling bins as happens in many other local authority areas.
A spokesman said it was due to restrictions in the sorting capabilities of the materials recovery facility in Mansfield, where the recycling is sorted.
New research by Friends of the Earth shows Newark and Sherwood was 27th of 343 councils in the country for being environmentally-friendly. Rushcliffe was 331st.
