Recycle for Dorset

The Dorset Waste Partnership will be carrying out a series of road shows and presentations to raise residents’ awareness of the new waste and recycling collection services that will be starting in the brown bin, Ferndown, Colehill and Wimborne parts of the district on 29 October.

The Ferndown dates set so far are listed below:

  Road Shows
7 March - Penny’s Walk, Ferndown 10am - 2pm
27 March - Sainsbury’s, Ferndown 10am - 2pm
10 April – Ferndown Town Council 10am - 3pm
17 April - Penny’s Walk, Ferndown 10am - 2pm
24 April - Sainsbury’s, Ferndown 10am - 2pm

School Visits (not directly related to the new collection service)
22 Feb and 7 March - Finish your Food project, Ferndown First


New waste collection service details at:
http://dorsetforyou.com/dorsetwasteserviceRecycle for Dorset blog:http://recyclefordorset.wordpress.com/

The East Dorset Policy & Resources Committee have agreed to recommend the adoption of a standardised waste and recycling service in our area.  Full Council will be voting on 28th November.  Around one third of Dorset's refuse is food waste and the proposal is that this would be collected every week in a container with a tamper-proof lid that will be kept outside. Recycling would be collected fortnightly.  Paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and cans would be put into a wheeled bin and glass bottles and jars would go in a recycling box.  After food waste and recycling is removed from household bins, there shouldn't be much rubbish left, so this would be picked up fortnightly in a wheeled bin.  An optional chargeable (£35 per annum) garden waste service using a wheeled bin, which is collected fortnightly, would also be available if you wanted to sign up for this service?  Before the new service is introduced a series of road shows will take place across the district offering you the opportunity to talk to recycling officers about how the service will affect you and see examples of the wheeled bins, kitchen caddies and recycling containers.  The new service is designed to be as flexible as we can make it so that it will be available to all.  The Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) will ask residents a month or two before the service is introduced in their area to explain any circumstances that would make it difficult for the new service to be used at their property.  In exceptional cases, the DWP will work with households that don’t have space for wheeled bins and residents with mobility problems to find suitable alternative solutions. For example, this could mean having additional recycling boxes for recycling and plastic sacks for refuse.

EDDC will decide before Christmas how to collect your waste in the future to keep costs down, improve recycling and to ensure convenience to our customers.  The council might consider a kitchen caddy, a lockable food waste container to be emptied weekly, a recycling bin to be emptied fortnightly, glass being collected separately fortnightly, the residue of refuse for landfill collected fortnighty from a bin, together with an optional 'buy-in' service for garden waste.

My electorate feeding back who don't currently benefit from garden waste collection are pleased by the possibility (ies), and there is general support for the potential service, which of course is yet to be finalised.  Please keep in touch with any potential issues you have, in order that I can represent you effectively.  If you wish to speak on the matter, watch out for EDDC Agendas for Policy and Resources and Full Council coming up!

Following transfer to the Dorset Waste Partnership in April, EDDC are considering changes to the way we collect waste across the District.  I hope that the changes will be equitable, lead to cash savings at EDDC, and support recycling rates.  I particularly want to see the introduction of the collection of green waste for all residents, and not just for 'the some' that get it at the moment.  As always, I will be interested to hear your thoughts as a Ferndown Central Ward resident?