Pay By The Load Trade Waste Recycling Launches And Draft Waste Strategy Blueprint Unveiled To Mersey Public
20 June 2011
Traders and businesses can now use a new Trade Waste Recycling Centre on Merseyside under a waste authority drive in an attempt to get businesses to increase recycling. Residents are also to get their say on how Merseyside should manage its municipal waste
The new "pay by the load" Trade Waste Recycling Service has been launched by Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority and Veolia Environmental Services Ltd at the Bidston Integrated Waste Management Facility on Wallasey Bridge Road, Wirral.
The six-month trial by Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority, which owns the site, aims to increase the opportunities for more trade waste to be recycled and less put into landfill.
Traders currently have to pay high costs to put their waste in landfill or use other disposal services and this new Service offers a range of low cost options for the recycling of a variety of materials by both businesses and traders.
The service will be administered by the Authority's contractor, Veolia Environmental Services.
MWDA chief executive Carl Beer said: "Traders win because they will pay less to get rid of their waste than if they simply took it to landfill. Everyone else wins because we will be able to make sure as much of the waste as possible gets recycled so there is less pressure on the environment."
Chairperson of the Authority, Councillor Kevin Cluskey said: "We're confident the service will prove really popular and look forward to extending it across Merseyside once it's proved a success at Bidston."
More information can be found at www.merseysidewda.gov.uk
Draft Waste Strategy Blueprint Unveiled To Mersey Public
Residents are to get their say on how Merseyside should manage its municipal waste through a range of targets and options designed to help Merseyside councils and Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority meet tough environmental and resource management challenges on waste prevention, recycling, landfill and carbon impact.
The Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Merseyside -"RESOURCES Merseyside" has been agreed on the basis that district councils will decide the best collection system for their area and identified a menu of Options, which have been developed as actions for change. These Options include:
Joint Working: Local councils to consider joining forces to deliver services which could include joint collection contracts, shared collection services, joint communications, education and awareness and governance.
Frequency of Waste Collections: Local councils to consider the best local system for the collection of refuse and recyclables. This could be a weekly household collection of materials such as recyclables one week and rubbish that cannot be recycled or composted the next week, or waste that cannot be recycled cab be collected every week . Knowsley, Sefton and Wirral districts have already implemented changes to the frequency of their household waste collections.
Green Waste Charging: Consider chargingresidents for the garden waste they generate.
Food Waste collections plus treatment: Consider introducing separate collections for food waste. Knowsley and Sefton have introduced opt in food waste collection schemes.
No side waste: Consider a consistent approach across Merseyside regarding collections of any rubbish bags that do not fit inside a householder's refuse bin.
Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority Chief Executive Carl Beer said: "Decisions will be entirely for individual District Councils to make on what they feel will best achieve their needs based on their own performance, resources and local circumstances.
"What we must all understand is that - however we do it - we have got to do more to change our behaviour where waste is concerned. Only then can we start to address critical environmental issues such as carbon reduction and landfill."
Key targets outlined in the draft strategy include:
• Recycling 50 percent of household waste by 2020
Reducing the total amount of waste produced per household on Merseyside to 1.18 tonnes per household per year by 2030 from 1.3 tonnes in 2010 (a reduction of 120kg per household per year).
• Reducing the amount of municipal waste landfilled to 10 percent of that produced in 1995 by 2020 and 2 percent by 2030.
• Reducing the carbon emissions from municipal waste management services
The Merseyside district councils have already helped develop the draft Strategy for Merseyside and a representative sample of more than 3,000 residents have also had their say via doorstep surveys, focus groups, roadshows and the 'Don't Waste Your Say' campaign. This earlier consultation gave support to the draft objectives and delivery options now presented in the draft Strategy.
A summary document for the consultation which reflects their comments will be available from 27th June until 26th August 2011 so all members of the public from across Merseyside can add their views to the targets and ideas, designed to help Merseyside improve municipal waste management over the next thirty years and address some of the major resource challenges.
