Recycling plan bins trial for Swansea flats families
COMMUNAL kit-chen waste bins are being trialled at Swansea flats in advance of a city-wide change to household rubbish collection.
Currently, most residents in council-run or private flats do not have access to the kitchen waste recycling service which has been rolled out across Swansea.
But waste chiefs want that to change before the new collection system is implemented.
The trials involve each flat being given a small kitchen waste bin, which can be emptied into a communal bin on the ground floor.
Flats included in the pilot scheme are at Harford Court and Hanover Court in Sketty, and Drovers Court in Gowerton.
Under the waste coll- ection changes, householders will have their waste picked up on a two-week rota: week one will be kitchen waste, plastics and black bin bags; week two will be kitchen waste, glass, cans paper, cardboard and garden waste.
The key changes householders will notice are black bin bag collections being fortnightly rather than weekly, and plastics will be picked up from the kerbside.
These changes will affect residents living in Swansea West from September, and residents in the east from April 2011.
Councillor John Hague, Cabinet Member for the Environment, said: "We want every resident in Swansea to have access to all the kerbside recycling services on offer.
"Residential flats are not straightforward when it comes to kerbside collections.
"The pilot schemes will help us better understand the practical issues the council will face."
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by Gaynor, Swansea
Thursday, March 11 2010, 7:40PM
“And not only that some thieving s@d has nicked my green waste bags as well!!!”
by Gaynor, Swansea
Thursday, March 11 2010, 7:37PM
“I totally retract the positive comments I have made previously about the green food waste bin collections as they couldn't be bothered to collect my bin, left out Wenesday evening for collection today in Sketty Park. I have put my bin out every week since it was implemented in my area and I am really annoyed I will have to wait another week for it to be picked up. The lousy Council can shove their spin on recycling from now on and if they can't collect why should we make an effort to put it out?”
by Linda, Neath
Thursday, March 11 2010, 4:33PM
“Dai Chotomy the glass milk bottle lives - I have them delivered, believe it or not - I also have pop delivered in glass returnable bottles - buy squash in glass bottles - and buy my fruit and veg in it's skin only - as I stated previously - there is an alternative - and it is a good one.”
by Dai Chotomy, Swansea
Thursday, March 11 2010, 12:48PM
“Welsh Scouser, my post was a light-hearted complaint that someone in the Evening Post, possibly the journalist, possibly a sub-editor had stuck a hyphen in ¿kitchen¿ (kit-chen).
I, of course, applaud your diligence in recycling. It is a great pity that we cannot reuse some, if not all packaging. Do you remember the milk-bottle or the beer flagon or when carrier bags were made from brown paper? Oh happy days.”
by Welsh Scouser, Swansea
Thursday, March 11 2010, 12:31PM
“Dai Chotomy, the bin is shaerd by a large number of flats. So you could have 20 different properties all using a large bin.
Who will get fined when half the neighbours can't be bothered to recycle? All of us?
At the moment i'm the only one that i can see making the effort to recycle paper and cans/glass every 2 weeks as there is no evidence of anyone else leaving the green bags at the kerbside.”