Agenda item

Report of the Director of Open Spaces (copy attached).

The Committee received a report of the Director of Open Spaces relative to a proposal to undertake a one-year trial, to replace all current bins with a type that accepts only mixed recyclables in the City Gardens, lasting from January to December 2013. The key objectives would be to reduce the cost of processing waste from the City Gardens and to increase recycling rates for the City as a whole.

RESOLVED: That,

i)      all 27 ‘blast-proof’ bins from the City Gardens be replaced with Envirobank 140L recycling bins, with an objective of minimising contamination to no greater than 5% in accordance with the requirements of the City’s  Materials Recycling Facility, on a one year trial between January and December 2013.

ii)     the Superintendent report the trial results to the Committee in early 2014