Waste Management Strategy
Purpose
The continued and extended promotion and encouragement of waste minimisation and reduction through the Waste Watchers Campaign.
· On going promotion of home composting and the provision of low cost composters in partnership with the private sector.
· Maintain weekly collection of household waste using wheeled bins.
· Expanding the fortnightly kerbside scheme using a 140 litre wheeled bin collection system for co-mingled dry recyclables throughout the borough. Examine the feasibility of exchanging the 240 litre wheelie bin with the 140 litre dry recyclables wheelie bin at a future date to further aid waste minimisation.
· Providing a co-mingled dry recycling collection scheme for flats.
· Continued use of the bring site facilities for recyclable material with possible rationalisation or changes to meet new legislation such as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.
· Introducing a fortnightly doorstep collection of glass on alternate weeks to dry recyclables.
· Consider collection service for green waste using a pre-paid sack. In the longer term this material may be bulked up at the Civic Amenity Site for delivery to a composting facility and consideration would be given to excluding green waste from wheeled bins.
· Continue to identify opportunities to recover further materials from the waste stream.
· The Civic Amenity site at Nuffield Road will remain open, but improvements to the site will be made to increase recycling opportunities and yields.
· Utilise Hurn Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) until August 2004 and examine the establishment of an MRF within Poole’s Boundary, possibly shared with partners.
· Landfill to be the final disposal route initially with future consideration being given to thermal recovery systems as new technology comes on stream.
· In relation to all handling, recycling, recovery, disposal methods, the Council will look to work in partnership with other local authorities and the private sector, if economies of scale or other financial/environmental benefits are identified.
The strategy will be reviewed in five years or sooner if significant changes to national strategy or Council/national responsibilities so indicate.
Statutory targets will be used to measure the success of the strategy.
Environmental and Consumer Protection
Unit 1, Newfields Business Park, 2 Stinsford Road, Poole
BH17 0NF
Tel: 01202 261700
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