TOR2 Improvements To Your Recycling and Waste Service
As you may have seen in the press, TOR2 will be introducing improvements to your recycling and waste services from 6th September 2010. These services will allow you to recycle up to 85% of your waste, with all residents able to recycle the same materials.
This introduction letter gives an overview of the improvements, and you will receive specific information in July with the full details of the changes and what you will need to do.
From 6th September 2010 the following improvements will be made:
- a weekly collection of recycling from all households in Torbay
- an increased range of weekly recyclable materials collected at kerbside
- a new weekly kitchen waste recycling collection
- new recycling containers (2 recycling boxes, a kitchen caddy and kitchen waste bin) to replace the current large, green wheelie bin for recycling, which will allow better and more flexible storage of recycling
- same day collection for recycling and residual waste to the majority of households making it easy to remember collection days
For those living in flats (with shared recycling facilities) there will be improvements to your recycling collections, which will include, an increased range of materials collected and a new weekly collection of kitchen waste. You will receive a leaflet about this later this summer.
To give you an opportunity to ask questions there will also be team of Waste Doctors and door-to-door canvassers on-the-ground during the summer who will:
- attend roadshows
- undertake talks and presentations with local community and interest groups
- provide a door-to-door canvassing service
- visit those who might need a bit of extra help to get going with the new services (bookable via Torbay Council’s Customer Call Centre)
There will also be information in the local press and Torbay View.
Householders rebel against Torbay’s rubbish collection service…………………..
This new bin system is pure madness!!!, i,m Disabled with both physical and mental problems, theres no way i can do it the way they now want it done, also i never knew they wont take wet paper well how do we keep it dry with no lids on the bins, seagulls are a real problem in my street and have already worked out how to get the nets off.. we really need all torbay people to stand up and have our say that we are not happy with this… a petition or something is really needed here, i have just found and joined a facebook page called Torbay Unite , where we can voice our say about this mad idea, i,m hoping that if enough of us in torbay join we can join forces and get this sorted out… If you want to help persuade TOR2 to think again about replacing our Green bins sign up to Torbay Unite .and spread the word.
Yes we want more recycling but this is not the way!!!.
kind regards
Alan, Paignton
I received the points below via email so am sharing them here for discussion…..
1.How are food waste bins expected to be cleaned? If this is not done efficiently, they will be a source of infection. Most homes do nothave external taps with drains under them.
2. How are the weak and elderly to get the large waste boxes to the road?
3. It is unlikely that cardboard will be dry if it is submitted in the same box as bottles, and since the boxes have no lids.Rain is unpredictable.
4. If caddies are lined with newspaper is this to be put in the food waste bin?
5. How much is the waste centre going to charge for starch liners, and where will profit on these go?
6. Much of the waste to be disposed of comes from manufacturers preferred packing. Are attempts being made to reduce such waste at source?
Got my bins! Woo hoo! Now I have 5 bins! 2 big black boxes, a small black box, an ugly brown box for my nice new kitchen and my usual black wheely bin for the ‘un-recyclables’. Nice. I’ve red the leaflet, I’m supposed to separate the items inside the box, but not with bags? Maybe with magic? If the recyclable items in a single box are supposed to be separated so that the collectors can save time sieving through them, why do the boxes not have separate compartments? And nets? NETS!! Random or what! Why not lids? Then I could actually stack them, if they were all the same size that is! Think I may melt them down and make one big one with all the compartments required!
I understand from the instructions we have received that only plastic bottles can be recycled.Does that mean that all other plastics will go in the black weelie bin? Keith L Ford
Yes keith , as i understand it , only the plastic bottles can be recycled so other plastic ( like food trays , yogurt and margerine pots ,wrappers etc ) will ALL go to the black bin . I am going to need a bigger black bin as it will only be collected fortnightly .
I have just started to separate all plastics cardboards food etc etc what a bloody pain last thing you need when cooking a meal is to wonder what goes in what bloody bin. lets hope torbay can come up with something better than this system, this is so stupid
Have your say on Facebook site : “Torbay Green wheelie bins”
Protest to the Council and May Gurney to have our green recycle Bins reinstated !
There’s already a facebook page running called Torbay Unite, although for the life of me I can’t find it today, but I did write on it last week! Anyone know what’s happened to it?
Have been lucky with our weekly collection, no problem, we are lucky we are able to put all of our bins at the front of the bungalow, we have had this sort of collection where we use to live so we are use to it, the only problem I have is where to get the 7ltr bin liners, also could not find any information on Tor2 web site in relation to purchasing them. Bin men were great very polite.
Torbay Green Wheelie Bins now have a petition running…you can find it here..
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/torbaygreenrecyclingbins/