WASTE AND RECYCLING

IN WOKINGHAM

BOROUGH COUNCIL

SYNOPSIS

Facts and Figures – Recycling & Landfill

Waste Hierarchy

WBC Cleaner & Greener Services

What can be recycled?

Spot contaminants

Success Stories

Incentives

Questions

FACTS AND FIGURES - RECYCLING

Recycling Targets

EU Target for 2020 – 50%

1st half of 2014/15 – 42%

Annual Recycling Rate for

2013/14 – 39%

39%

42%

50% EU target

for 2020

1st half of

2014/15

2013/14

FACTS AND FIGURES - LANDFILL

Waste sent to landfill in

2006 - 69%

Current figures show - 17%

25,000 Tonnes per annum

diverted

69%

17%

2006

2013/14

Landfill tax costs

£80 per tonne And disposal

£170 per tonne

WASTE HIERARCHY

Under EU Waste

Framework Directive

(WFD) – Ranking of

Waste Management

Options Did you

know?

If every

household in WBC

were to divert 1Kg

from their rubbish to

recycling they can help

the council to save

£320K per annum

WBC CLEANER & GREENER SERVICES

Batteries Collection Points

39 Brink Banks Sites

2 Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC)

Bulk Waste Collection Service circa 1,000 per annum

Kerbside Waste Collection

Service

Weekly

General Rubbish

Collection

Weekly

Recycling

Collection

Fortnight

Garden

Waste

Collection

WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED?

SPOT CONTAMINANTS!!!

SUCCESS STORIES – MONARCH DRIVE

DOWNHAM COURT BIN TRIAL SUCCESS

INCENTIVES

Subsidised Garden Waste Composters from

‘getcompoting’

Real Nappy Cash Back Vouchers

£30 cash back for the purchase of real nappies

Green Redeem

A lot of rewards on

Restaurants and takeaways

Health & Beauty

Entertainment and Recreation

Points for returning unused blue bags to libraries

THANK YOU

FOR LISTENING

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