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

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Recycle for Dorset Timetable

• Tranche 1 Oct 2012- 54K h/h• Tranche 2 June 2013- 41K h/h

March 2014 Purbeck and parts of West

inc. Dorchester* (40,000)(November 2013 – Garden Waste)

October 2014Weymouth and Portland and parts of West inc. Sherborne

(48-50,000)

2015 (tbc)Rest of West inc. Bridport and

Lyme Regis, (18-20,000)

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The Service

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

Wheeled bin - 240 litre

£35 per year

25 collections per year

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Popular service – 25,000 registrations already

Weekly Food Waste Collection

• 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

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Fortnightly Recycling Collection

• 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)

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Fortnightly Rubbish Collection

• 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

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Tailoring the service

• The standard service will be suitable for the majority of properties

• The new service is however designed to be flexible and accommodate different circumstances– 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.

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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

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www.dorsetforyou.com/recyclingevents

New vehicles

Food and recycling collection

The Service

Christchurch – Collected household figures

Oct 2012 to March 2013recycling rate: 62%(34% Oct 11 –Mar 12)

Total waste arisings:Reduced by 7%

Optional Garden Waste ServiceOver 25,000 registrations to date

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Where does it all go?

• ‘Dry’ recycables - delivered to one of a number of DWP transfer facilities. – 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.”

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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 WasteWindrow 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

Questions?dorsetforyou.com/recyclefordorset

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