Latest News:Gloucester's Getting Greener
Changes to the 'Garden Cuttings' collection service are being introduced to the existing households on the green sack system and to a further 18000 households from 10th September 2007. This is part of the City Council's drive to increase our recycling efforts and cut down the amount of rubbish that goes into the landfill site.
Each householder will automatically receive a 240ltr green wheeled bin for garden waste, such as grass and hedge trimmings. It will be collected from your kerbside every two weeks. You should receive a leaflet shortly detailing the scheme including the types of materials that you can put in your green wheeled bin. As a result of the introduction of this scheme some residents refuse collection days may change and you will notified accordingly. If you wish to have a second wheeled bin then a charge of £25 will apply.
Your responsibility - Trade WasteIf you operate any form of business, you have a legal responsibility under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and other related legislation to safely contain and legally dispose of any waste produced from your business. For further details about your responsibility click here. Further information can also be obtained on the Environmental Health web pages
Residents to receive RE-USED boxesA pilot scheme that was trialled in March 2006 has resulted in 3000 redundant blue boxes.
In order to practice what we preach, Gloucester City and Enterprise are re-using the boxes and issuing these to residents instead of the standard green boxes. The boxes are blue, but should be used as a green box to recycle newspaper and magazines, food and drink cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic milk bottles, textiles and shoes.
If you have a blue box or see a blue box being used, don't panic - nothing has changed apart from the colour of the box! Once we have re-used all the boxes, we will revert back to issuing green boxes.
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Waste Strategy for Gloucestershire - A public consultation on how we will manage your waste for the next 10 to 20 years. Talk Rubbish to us
What is Gloucester City Council doing?Since 1990, Gloucester City Council has encouraged people within the city to reduce, re-use and recycle their waste.
We now have many services in place to assist residents in recycling as much of their waste as possible, these include:
- Green box kerbside recycling collection service to all households in the city - collecting paper, cans, glass, plastic milk bottles, textiles and shoes
- Recycling banks at the large supermarkets collecting cardboard and all plastic bottles paper, glass, cans, textiles and shoes
- Mini recycling facilities for flats - collecting paper, glass, cans and plastic milk bottles from a communal area
- Garden cuttings collection service to 26,000 households in the city, including Longlevens, Elmbridge, Coney hill, White City and Hucclecote and parts of Quedgeley, Barnwood, Abbeymead, Abbeydale, Tuffley, the Grange and Kingsholm.
- Introduction of a closed-lid policy to all households covered by the garden cuttings collection service, where all refuse must be contained within one wheeled bin with the lid properly closed and no additional bags of rubbish placed next to the bin. This policy has encouraged more people to recycle and thus has reduced the amount of rubbish we are sending to landfill.
- Promotion of heavily subsidised home composters, which are available for as little as £8. To order your bin , please call 0845 0770757 or click here to find out more about composting.
Recycling - A to Z of what you can recycle
The Benefits of RecyclingRecycling recovers valuable raw materials and saves energy that would have been used in the making of unrecycled raw materials. Recycling also prevents waste going to less environmentally friendly disposal routes such as landfill and incineration. You can also make a difference by buying recycled products.
To find out which day you rubbish will be collected on Click Here
What can YOU do to help?The city council has a government target of collecting and recycling 20% of the household waste by 2008 and we have set ourselves a recycling target of 50% by 2009. We currently have a dry-recycling rate of 15.3% and a composting rate of 8.7% giving us a combined recycling rate of 24%. In order to ensure we continue to increase our recycling rate, we are encouraging all residents to firstly participate in recycling and secondly, to recycle as much as possible.
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