Waste recycling bins begin arriving at homes across Northamptonshire
Food recycling bins being delivered in Station Road, Great Billing.
THE first bins and caddies for the new food waste recycling collection were delivered to homes in Northampton this week.
The new service will allow almost 120,000 homes in Northampton borough and Daventry district to put out their food waste for a weekly collection on their regular recycling day.
Between now and March, residents will receive a small caddy to keep in the kitchen which can be emptied into a larger outdoor bin with a lockable lid to be kept outdoors.
Residents can start using the bins as soon as they arrive, to be picked up their regular collection day.
Councillor David Mackintosh, leader of Northampton Borough Council, encouraged people to give food waste recycling a try.
He said: “Food waste is the smelliest part of most people’s bins and now we will be collecting it every week, which is good news.
“This is a real step forward that gives us all a chance to prevent thousands of tonnes of waste being sent to landfill in our county each year and to see just how much food we are wasting.
“In the recycling week between Christmas and New Year, 31 per cent more recycling was collected across the area, which really shows that people in Northampton are taking advantage of every opportunity to recycle more. I really hope people will do the same with their food waste and will give the new service a try.”
Changes to collection days to account for the new service has seen some problems around the town, with residents complaining they were not aware of the changes. Earlier this week, the council apologised to residents who had not received the new calendar, and said it expected householders to take a few weeks to adjust to the new collection days.
Waste collected as part of the new service will be recycled at an anaerobic digestion plant where it will be turned into electricity and fertiliser. Food waste currently amounts to 30 per cent of waste in the county.
A weekly doorstep textile collection has also been introduced in Northampton and Daventry. An information leaflet is included with the food waste caddies and further information on food waste recycling can be found at www.northampton.gov.uk
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WagTheDog
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:21 PMGot it! Use the bin to keep the little brown lumps that get deposited on the lawn. After all, they are "organic" waste. Don't want to be within earshot of the bin collectors when they open the lid, though.
Duncan Roomyhatchback Duncan
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 04:33 PMPut our waste food container out with the other recycling this week and never got it back! If you see a stray one let me know!
Finker
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:39 PMAbingtonAll, agree entirely, the fact they are looking at 'mining' rubbish tips for plastic dumped in the past just shows how things have changed.
darushNN10
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:30 PMWhy can it be so different between Rushden and Northampton, they are in the same county after all. We have three bins there, one for food collected weekly, and the bins look very different to the picture up top. One for all recycleing in the same bin, card, paper, cans, glass etc. collected every other week, and one for the rest, collected every other week. Had it for a long time now and it works really well, we got rid of all the open top recycleing containers, went to food bin and wheely bins and all is good. Why is it so difficult for NBC?
AbingtonAll
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:01 AMBottom line. The cost of landfill goes up year on year, which costs us all as taxpayers. The more waste that we can divert to recycling, compost etc saves us money and helps better utilize finite resources. This is all going in the right direction and most people do their bit and spend 5 minutes a week doing the recycling. However, there is a significant minority (I guess about a third) of people who genuinely don't care and refuse to do anything. For them we need more of a carrot and stick approach. If you put naff all in the black bins then you get rewarded (tickets to NTFC perhaps) and if you refuse to recycle anything then you get fined (with the latter paying for the former)..
AbingtonAll
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 09:48 AM"Wag the dog" - i'd recommend giving the bin back to the council if you don't need it. Your council tax paid for it and every one that is wasted is costing us all money. "20SOMETHING" - you must produce some waste, unless you eat banana skins and potato peelings. I head to the market at the weekend and stock up on good value fruit & veg for the week, which means I produce lots of food waste. I'd much rather the unusable bits went to good use (I don't have a big enough garden for a compost heap). "02Shane"- allowing out-of-town retail to be built DOES harm the High Street shops. You have contradicted yourself there! "boudica" - these sort of waste collections have been going on for years elsewhere in the country and the plague has not returned.
pd66qpr
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 08:27 AMA colleague of mine took delivery of their food waste bin 2 weeks ago.The first time it was out for collection the bin men done their usual trick of throwing it back towards the house and snapped off the locking lever. Needless to say the next time they collected the black bin the council got their food waste bin back!!!
willi eckaslyke
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 08:24 AMIt was a totally innocent 'funny' - honest!
willi eckaslyke
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 08:21 AMPending Moderation
WagTheDog
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 10:49 PMI have my own food recycling system indoors. It wags at one end and barks at the other, and devours anything and everything edible very efficiently! Now I'm stuck for a beneficial use of these new bins. Sensible (or silly) suggestions (but nothing anatomical, please) welcome via this web site. Thank you.
20SOMETHING
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 08:36 PMWith the cost of food being so expensive I know that in our household no food is thrown away or gets wasted. The only waste here is the councils and at a time when they should be saving money it seems they are busy creating ways of wasting it.I wouldn't mind but as I am contributing to the cost of this waste I like many others feel the council still hasn't fully got the message. Waste Not Want Not!!! Whoever dreams up these silly schemes could be made redundant leaving more money to fund essential services
02Shane
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 07:49 PMAnother F ing Waste of Money NBC have no idea on how to save money just how to waste it. They don't care about this Town. Take ASDA New Store By The Saints Means More Jobs NBC say No , Ikea at Grange Park More Jobs NBC say No I feel a trend forming here. Theres no wonder that high street stores are leaving fast
boudica
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 05:38 PMNot to keep going on but as a 60s child I must!! It's about our Borough investing more into breakdown of plastic bags - polymers and cornstarch etc and even microorganisms for this purpose which I believe have been researched by no less than a school boy somewhere in the Us with success on a small scale.. If the Borough and government could forget rhetoric and apply more funding into this and stop schemes which really aren't cost effective then perhaps the landfills might prove less than hazardous in the future.
boudica
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 05:23 PMRubbish! The Borough has taken us back to the 19th century when slops were thrown out.. We could go further and have a rooms in our homes designated as lavatories, and shovel our faeces into buckets as was done in preceding centuries. Think what the methane would do for our energy requirements. No less for food slops! Really! Has the Borough thought of the health & Safety aspects especially with so much e coli going around and MRSA .What about cross-contamination with the decomposition of raw and cooked food stuffs in kitchens deposited into plastic bins and then thrown out into another - lets hope that the general public have a high sense of hygiene and remember to wash hands and then rinse out bins.! This is not the same as composting - and shouldn't be confused with it..
FranklyFrank
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 04:20 PMSteve - winter garden waste ain't minimal old chap, in fact quite the opposite. Please leave my garden waste collection out of this. Thank you.
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