Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Details of trial
Collection start date:
21 May 2007
Collection frequency:
Weekly
Collection containers:
7 litre kitchen caddy and 20 litre kerbside bucket
Description of trial area:
6,546 houses in urban/suburban area.
Liners provided:
Yes
Support supplied by WRAP:
Communication and publicity. Liners. Staff and vehicle costs. Container distribution costs. Monitoring and Evaluation.
Collection vehicle used:
White Farrid body on Iveco chassis, GVW 7.5 tonne, partial compaction
Collection Contractor:
Fosca Services (UK) Ltd
IVC facility being used and location:
TEG, Todmorden, Halifax
Background information
Local authority size:
192,404 people. Eighty per cent of the area is rural with 24% of the population living rurally.
Existing food waste collections:
No
Exisiting garden waste collections:
No
Refuse Collection – frequency and containers used:
Weekly, back door, black bag.
Recycling Collection – frequency and containers used:
Fortnightly, glass and paper plus other multi material collections by Kerbside Calderdale a not for profit community company.
Communications
Examples of communication materials used by the council
Food waste collection trial leaflet:
Calderdale - food_waste_instructions_v7 (8823 kb) ![[pdf]](http://www.wrap.org.uk/display_images/document_icons/pdf.gif){kind=icon}
Calderdale - intro_spreads (3889 kb)
Caddy sticker:
Calderdale - food_waste_sticker (513 kb)
Contamination sticker:
Calderdale - Final_Tie (466 kb)
