Household recycling in Islington Environment Scrutiny Review Committee – • Policy and strategy context recycling scrutiny • Services • Performance Matthew Homer • NLWA 11 September 2017 • Better recycling sites DRAFT • Tackling contamination and fly-tipping • Private rented sector • Food waste • Technology • Summary Waste Minimisation and Recycling Action Islington Council’s waste strategy Plan 2016-17 • Annual Waste Minimisation and Recycling Action Plan agreed by • Aim Executive Committee – To provide quality recycling services that meet the needs of residents and to reduce the amounts of municipal waste sent for disposal via landfill or • Last report 29 September 2016 incineration. • Objectives – To build awareness for the need to recycle/re-use through effective communication – To identify opportunities to implement better quality and more cost effective methods of recycling – To seek to achieve a 2016/17 recycling rate for waste from households of 35.2% and that supports the NLWA recycling target of 50% by 2020 – To achieve a household waste (not recycled) rate of no more than 413kg during 2016/17 – To support the NLWA partnership and the implementation of its waste strategy About Islington’s recycling targets Compulsory recycling policy • Mustn’t thrown away anything that can be recycled using the service • Executive committee agreed in 2010 to ‘work towards a recycling target provided to you at home inline with that agreed in the NLWA IAA agreement with appropriate • Applies to all homes interim targets to ensure sufficient progress is made towards that • Applies to all recycling streams (i.e. mixed dry recycling, food, garden, target. where service provided) • IAA included waste flow models for each Borough, setting out recycling • Enforcement only practical for street properties, rather than homes with targets communal bins • Interim targets included in 2012-13 executive committee report • Legislation change makes enforcement much harder • IAA finally approved in 2014 following cessation of NLWA procurement • Currently, no active enforcement for new facilities • Waste flow models removed, but includes a commitment to ‘work towards the prevailing North London Joint Waste Strategy and the Waste Framework Directive target of recycling 50% of waste from households by 2020, or any jointly agreed successor targets’ 1
North London Waste Authority NLWA Joint waste Strategy • Statutory waste disposal authority for • 2004-2020, last updated 2009 – Islington • 50% recycling target by 2020 – Six other north London Boroughs • Funded through levy • Will be updated in the context of the NLHPP and the Mayor’s new • Menu pricing - different prices per tonne for different Environment Strategy waste streams – Residual £85.32 – Mixed Organics £60.85 – Commingled £48.16 • Recycling in 2016/17 reduced disposal costs by ~ £650k Mayor of London’s draft Islington Council recycling services for Environment Strategy residents • Make London a ‘zero waste city’ • Collection of mixed dry recycling offered to all residents • Minimum weekly recycling and refuse collections • no biodegradable or recyclable waste sent to landfill by 2025 • All street properties have food and garden waste collections • 65% of London’s municipal waste recycled by 2030 • Communal recycling bins for estates – (“municipal waste” household waste or business waste that is similar in • Nightly collections for flats above shops composition irrespective of who collects or disposes of it) • 50% recycling by 2025, 60% by 2030 for Local Authority collected waste Recycling and residual waste collections What happens to the recycling? from homes Housing type Residual waste Mixed dry Food waste Garden waste Frequency Rubbish recycling Homes Street houses, No container Green box Kitchen waste Reusable bag Weekly, same Hornsey Street HMOs and provided caddie and box day, same Clear sacks waste transfer small blocks (<7 Biobag liners vehicle (collect from station Recycling properties) (collect from libraries) libraries) Street houses No container Clear sacks Kitchen waste Reusable bag Weekly, same Food and garden waste etc with no provided (delivered and caddie and box day, same frontage collect from Biobag liners vehicle libraries) (collect from libraries) Energy from Repressors in Sorted at MRF Waste, Made into new Blocks of flats Communal Communal Communal None Weekly or more UK, Europe (Bywaters) in Edmonton (> 6 properties) wheelie bins recycling sites recycling sites products and Far East Bow (rented or (some) purchased) In-vessel Farms, parks, Flats above No container Clear recycling None None Daily, same composting, domestic use shops provided sites (delivered time, same Edmonton and collect from vehicle libraries) 2
Street property container options Recycling performance Green box with lid Wheelie bins Clear sacks 31.6% Pros Current system Increases recycling capacity Limitless capacity for householder Can request extra See-through – low risk of Can displace multiple boxes contamination Low delivery cost - tidy No container present Low risk of Popular with some following collection - tidy contamination High collection productivity Supply of sacks is good comms tool Cons Limited capacity Expensive Supply and delivery cost Boxes always present – Unpopular with many untidy Not-practical for many Misuse of boxes households No container provided for rubbish – high risk of contamination Low collection productivity Recycling performance Recycling performance NLWA Boroughs Inner London Boroughs Recycling performance Composting rate vs area of gardens 3
Recycling performance Recycling performance NLWA Boroughs NLWA partnership working NLWA joint Waste Prevention Plan • Waste prevention • Outreach activities to promote food waste reduction and recycling through face to-face conversations with residents • Recycling communications • Community exchange events entitled ‘Give and Take’ days • Clothing repair and upcycling events • Annual Waste Prevention Exchange • Schools waste education programme Budget of £461k in 2016-17. NLWA Communications Campaign on Household Recycling Education and engagement “Save Our Stuff” - three year recycling NLWA campaign • i-recycle centre Three year budget totalling £915k – Interactive classroom facility at RRC, curriculum linked education programme – Resource cut Aims: • Door knocking • Inspire, motivate and re-energise 18-34 (Millennials) to – Door knocking effective way of engaging with residents make recycling the right thing to do. – Green Team / ‘Recycling Champions’ • Deliver a high level, non instructional campaign • No identified communications budget or resource • Website (1,000 visits per day) • Used variety of digital advertising and social media • Social media (facebook, twitter) • Over 6 million impressions, 49k visits to campaign website • Communications to support individual projects or service changes • Heavily dependant on NLWA for outreach 4
Recycling on estates Better recycling sites • Focus on • A three year project for improving communal recycling sites – Improving recycling sites • Capital fund budget of £250K for each year agreed as part of – Reducing contamination and fly-tipping the 2016/17 budget • Communications • Enclosures for recycling containers, improved signage and containers, and communications – Door knocking during recycling week – Clear recycling sack pilot • Aim – Electronic screens on estates • to improve existing communal and estate recycling sites • Performance • to reduce contamination and fly-tipping – Difficult to gauge – Bin sensors / bin weighing may provide performance info Better recycling sites Better recycling sites - examples Year 1 improvements 2015/16 • 20 x separate recycling sites on housing and street sites • 46 x separate recycling bins housed • Variety of enclosures used depending on the site/surrounding Andover Estate environment Bath Street • 300 new recycling site signs • 50 food waste bin housing units • 5 new CCTV camera systems • 90 recycling bins replaced with new • Lid locks Cottenham House Food bin enclosures Better recycling sites - year 2 proposals Tackling contamination and fly-tipping • Additional new enclosures for up to 100 recycling containers Contamination – anything in the recycling stream that we cannot recycle, e.g. (approximately 25 locations) • Food waste in recycling bins • Additional new enclosures for up to 80 communal food waste • Nappies containers • Large items • New signs installed at 300 recycling sites • Black refuse sacks • New or as new refurbished containers to replace 300 old recycling Impacts containers • Rejected loads • New ‘reverse lid’ design if available • Affects recycling rate • Contributory / match funding • Costs more to empty and dispose of • Affects public perception of recycling facilities 5
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