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Bill Davidson
Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP)
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A CHANGE IN SERVICE TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN DORSET
COUNTY OVER 3 YEARS.
KEY OBJECTIVES• Save min £2m per annum
• Improve service
• Single service across County
• Increase recycling rate to over 65%
• Reduce landfill
• Ensure quality of material- security of markets
• Efficient collection
• Efficient disposal and treatment
• Efficient movement of materials
• Infrastructure supports efficiency
Recycle for Dorset Timetable
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Tranche 1 Oct 2012- 54K h/h
Tranche 2 June 2013- 41K h/h
3
March 2014
Purbeck and parts of West
inc. Dorchester* (40,000)
(November 2013 – Garden Waste)
4
October 2014
Weymouth and Portland and
parts of West inc. Sherborne
(48-50,000)
5
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3
2015 (tbc)
Rest of West inc. Bridport and
Lyme Regis, (18-20,000)
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The new service will collect:
• A weekly food waste collection
• An extensive fortnightly recycling collection
• A fortnightly rubbish collection
• An optional charged garden waste service
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Garden Waste Service
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Wheeled bin - 240 litre
£35 per year
25 collections per year
Popular service – 25,000 registrations already
Weekly Food Waste Collection
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• Two containers will be provided
– 23 litre container (lockable)
– 7 litre kitchen caddy
• All cooked and uncooked food will be
collected
– Meat and fish including bones
– Cooked and raw fruit and vegetables
– Bread, pasta, rice and dairy
– Plate scrapings
– Tea bags & coffee grounds
Fortnightly Recycling Collection
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• Collected fortnightly using a 240 litre wheeled bin and
recycling box
• The following materials will be collected:
– Wheeled Bin
• Paper and cardboard
• Plastic bottles, pots, tubs
and trays
• Tins, cans and aerosols
– Recycling Box
• Glass bottles / jars
• Batteries (in bag)
Fortnightly Rubbish Collection
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• Collected fortnightly using a
140 litre wheeled bin
(including an electronic tag).
– General rubbish that
can’t be recycled
eg plastic films and
disposable nappies
Tailoring the service
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• The standard service will be suitable for the majority
of properties
• The new service is however designed to be flexible
and accommodate different circumstances
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Large families – larger bin option (recycling & rubbish)
Smaller families – smaller bin option (recycling only)
Young children in nappies
Medical conditions
Flats
No space for wheelie bins
• All those who receive an assisted collection will be offered
option to continue.
Communications
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Letters and Leaflets to all Households
Press releases
Council publications
Radio
Static displays
Presentations
Roadshows
Face to face & visits
Customer contact centre
Save time- do it online
How to Guide
www.dorsetforyou.com/recyclingevents
New vehicles
Food and recycling collection
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Christchurch –
Collected household figures
Oct 2012 to March 2013
recycling rate: 62%
(34% Oct 11 –Mar 12)
Total waste arisings:
Reduced by 7%
Optional Garden Waste Service
Over 25,000 registrations to date
Service
Where does it all go?
• ‘Dry’ recycables - delivered to one of a number of
DWP transfer facilities.
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– Material is bulked up and sent directly to reprocessors (eg
glass) or for further sorting at a Materials Recycling Facility
(MRF) eg Shotton MRF*, North Wales.
“Approximately 99% of all
materials sorted at the Shotton
MRF remain in the UK, with 80%
of them travelling only a few
miles to be reprocessed.”
Food Waste - In Vessel Composting (IVC)
This process holds the material in monitored and controlled conditions in order to meet
Animal By Products regulations. Once the treatment cycle is complete a sanitised
product is blended and used on the turf farms near Bournemouth Airport
Food Waste - Anaerobic Digestion (AD)
This treatment breaks down the waste in the absents of oxygen producing biogas which
can be used to generate electricity, heat which is used to maintain the temperature in the
digester and digestate which can be applied to farm land as a fertiliser
Green Waste
Windrow Composting
Garden/Green waste is treated via windrow composting. First the material is
shredded and blended before being laid out in rows. The material is then regularly
turned to introduce oxygen to the compost as it breaks down into useful product.
Rubbish
Historically much of Dorset’s
waste went directly to landfill.
The introduction of new service
aims to avoid this method of
disposal where possible.
Environmentally and financially
this is the most unsustainable
method of dealing with waste.
The DWP has contracts with
three landfill providers located
within and in close proximity to
Dorset.
Rubbish - Mechanical Biological
Treatment (MBT)
At least 20,000 tonnes per year of rubbish from
Dorset is treated at the New Earth Solutions MBT
plant. This process extracts recyclables people have
missed and composts any remaining organic matter.
Some materials extracted from this process are sent
for energy recovery and typically the plant achieves
75-80% diversion from landfill.
Energy From Waste
At least 10,000 tonnes of rubbish per year is sent to the Energy
from waste plant in Southampton operated by Veolia. Some
metals are extracted for recycling and the plant provides electricity
for 20,000+ local homes. This plant achieves 80% diversion form
landfill.
Questions
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Questions?
dorsetforyou.com/recyclefordorset