uncil-operated collection of 5 materials is offered to 100% of households on a fortnightly basis, separated on-street.
6.Darlington Borough Council
The collection of 5 materials once a fortnight is offered to 100% of its households, with an estimated participation rate of 50-60%. The in-house operated collection is separated on-street.
The council offers a collection of 6 materials every Metropolitan fortnightly to 100% of households. The scheme is Borough Council separated on-street and run by Cheshire Recycling.
8. Vale of White Horse District Council
A 6 material collection is offered every week to 100% of households and the participation rate is estimated at Council 74%. The materials are separated on-street and the scheme is operated by ECT recycling (a not for profit company).
9.West Oxfordshire District Council
ECT recycling offers a fortnightly 5 material collection to 100% of households. The separated scheme will expand to collect plastic bottles, aerosols, cardboard and batteries from April 04.
10.North Cornwall District Council
A 7 material separated collection is offered to 100% of households fortnightly, operated by Cornwall Paper Council Company. The participation rate is 55%.
The worst doorstep waste collections in England
Bromsgrove District Council No doorstep collection is offered. The council is planning to introduce one between March 04 and January 05.
East Riding of Yorkshire No doorstep collection is offered. There is a proposal to introduce a paper collection but the start date was not provided.
Warrington Borough Council Only 6% of households in Warrington get any kind of doorstep collection, and that just picks up paper – once a month. The scheme is run in-house.
Sheffield City Council In April 2003, waste company Onyx introduced a doorstep collection of paper and cardboard which picks up just once a month. Households put out their mixed paper, magazines and cardboard in large (140 litre) wheelie bins. Sheffield’s recycling rate was just 4 per cent in 2002-3 one of the lowest in the country. Its doorstep scheme reached just 9 per cent of households in 2002-3. Although Sheffield Council has reported to us that they are now reaching 85 per cent of properties with their scheme, they still have a long way to go.
South Lakeland SITA collects just one material, paper, from half the households in South Lakeland. The other half of households receives no collection.
Kettering Borough Council Although Kettering offers a 4 material collection to some of its households, the vast majority – 89% – do not get any service at all.
City of London The waste management company Bywaters collects paper and card mixed together from just 37% of City of London households.
Middlesbrough Borough Council Only paper is collected in Middlesbrough (by Cheshire Recycling). The council acknowledges that it will need to catch up with other authorities by collecting more types of materials within the next year or so.
Liverpool City Council Liverpool offers a collection of just 1 material, paper, and 15% of its households don’t even get that.
Friends of the Earth ‘Doorstep Recycling in England’
Friends of the Earth ‘Doorstep Recycling in England’
Also of note is the spread of waste across England, with specific high concentrations of waste producing districts in the West Midlands and South West, and how this relates to the relevant areas performance of doorstep collections. There is negative correlation, with Greater London producing the least waste, yet offering the highest percentage of councils collecting the maximum number of recyclable materials.
Textile Recycling – textile recycling in the fashion industry
Textile recycling falls into the category that is least well documented and the data often confused, a variety of items may or may not be counted as textiles, and the data, as seen here varies wildly.
It is estimated that 400,000 to 700,000 tonnes of textiles are land filled every year, worth an estimated £400 million. At least 50% of the textiles going to landfill are recyclable. The amount of textile waste reused or recyc