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Report: Bristol may become first English council to collect black bins every four weeks

by admineconai January 29, 2025
written by admineconai January 29, 2025
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Latest reports have shown that Bristol city council could become the first local authority in England to collect black rubbish bins only once every four weeks.

The Green-led council says that switching from a two- to four-weekly collection would save it more than £2m a year and help reverse a dip in recycling rates. The council believes it would be the first in England to move to collections every four weeks.

Some residents and political opponents have expressed concern that it could lead to more non-recyclable rubbish being fly-tipped and almost 2,000 people have so far signed a Labour petition against the idea. The council argues that it has not seen evidence of fly-tipping increasing in areas that have moved to three-weekly collections and says it has powers to clamp down on offenders.

The authority launched a six-week consultation on Monday and hopes to make a decision by the spring. Residents are being asked if collections should stay the same or move to a three-week or four-week pattern. Bristol is home to about 483,000 people living in more than 191,000 households, and growing. The council says that on average, each person creates up to 400kg of household waste a year.

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For the past two years, Bristol has recycled about 45% of its household waste – among the best records in the UK – but the council says the recycling rate is dropping, making change vital.

Councillor Martin Fodor, the chair of the environment and sustainability committee, said: “Anything that ends up in the black bin waste is taken away for incineration or sent to landfill – both of which come with serious environmental and cost issues.

“Burning or leaving waste to decompose in landfill releases carbon and other harmful substances into the atmosphere. This pollutes the air around us and also contributes to fuelling climate change.

“Changing government regulation and the increasing costs of dealing with black bin waste means that to keep managing our city’s waste as we currently do is set to become much more expensive.”

The council estimates that the introduction of new charges on disposing black bin waste by incinerating it or sending it to landfill will add over £8m a year on top of existing charges to the cost of managing the city’s waste system, if changes are not made.

It says a quarter of black bin waste in Bristol is food waste that could be recycled in the food waste bin and a quarter is paper and card, glass, plastic and cans, textiles and small electrical items that also could all be recycled.

Story was adapted from the Guardian.

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