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.
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