Waveney District Council

Collections start date:
29 May 2007

Collection frequency:
Weekly

Collection containers:
26.5 litre brown bin, 7 litre pigeon blue caddy

Description of trial area:
4,800 properties in urban area - terrace housing

800 Halesworth – rural market town.

Liners provided:
WDC distributed  a set of liners with the caddies and are running a token system for additional liners to be picked up from the town hall for free.  We are also running a scheme to make the liners available in local stockist for those who do not want to come to the town hall or who are using excessive numbers. These are on a buy one get one free system.

Support supplied by WRAP:
Advice in design of trial, containers, communications design and printing, monitoring and evaluation

Collection vehicle used:
Final will be a stillage vehicles with roll off stillages

Collections Contractor:
DSO

IVC facility being used and location:
Bioganix Ltd – Parham, Suffolk

Local authority size:
53,563 households

Existing food waste collection:
No

Existing garden waste collection:
Green 240 litre bin on alternate weekly collections

Refuse collection – frequency and containers used:
Black 240 litre bin on alternate weekly collections

Recycling collection – frequency and containers used:
240 litre bin on alternate weekly collections

Examples of communication material used by the council:

Food waste collection trial leaflet:
Waveney - food_waste_introduction (3719 kb)
Waveney - instructional_monday_spreads (7590 kb)

Caddy sticker:
Waveney - food_waste_sticker (521 kb)

Contamination sticker:
Waveney - Final_Tie (479 kb)

Main contact:
Kitran Eastman

Telephone:
01502 523117

Email:
recycleing@waveney.gov.uk