BYE BYE Wheelie Bins

A recycling shake-up is considered in Sutton as they will have a new recycling scheme for residents living in a house or flat in within the borough and other southwest London councils who have agreed to do the same. All councils have gone through voting procedures, and have come to terms with instituting the well-established private company to collect waste.

Teaming up with the recycling company “Veolia” will ensure a better community being aware of sustainability, even to the means of changing old habits. This company is remarkably reliable, not just reviewing their services to recycling in London, but providing urban cleaning, waste management and grounds maintenance as well. Always, Veolia are innovatively improving the quality of waste management. They are fulfilling their potential already with the innovation of their integrated Waste Management Facility in Southwark featuring a mechanical-biological sorting unit that treats the waste collected by separating recyclable and biodegradable components, which are converted to fuels.

Hopefully Veolia’s astounding deliverance to recycling will rapidly offer to increase recycling rates in Sutton’s council. It has been estimated that the new service is expected to deliver an increase in recycling to over 40% within 12 months.

This new recycling scheme will bring changes to the borough’s waste collection service. There will be no brown and green wheelie bins. Instead the food waste will be collected every week in a new container. And everything else will be collected fortnightly. Paper and card will be separated from plastics, glass, cans, and cartons, and rubbish will be collected separately too.

Other benefits to the scheme includes less waste, as it will be turned into energy and compost and in the long-term the contract with Veolia will save taxpayers money.

The majority of local reactions reflects the impracticality of the scheme. Some resident are outraged that the council have not thought about the petition signed by thousands against fortnightly collections. Whilst others worry that the fortnightly collection can't cope for the amount of waste.

The council are left with piles of complaints amounted on them, from people questioning why a private company to take over. Why can’t the council deal with handling a fortnightly collection? And to people left in disgrace, not looking forward to bearing with overflowing stinky bins and a maggot manifestation.

At the moment, people who are hearing about this for the first time are prejudging all the systems cracks and faults, and the council are just lodging in skip of complaints. The real action begins in April, where the new pristine bins will be christened all around Sutton!