Six hundred households in Burnham-On-Sea will soon be able to recycle food waste, plastic bottles and cardboard items when a brand new home recycling scheme launches in the town this May.
The trials for new waste and recycling collections are to be launched in Burnham by the Somerset Waste Partnership, it was announced on Thursday (March 27th).
The trials will see home collections introduced for food waste, plastic bottles and cardboard.
Cllr Stuart Kingham, Sedgemoor District Council’s Portfolio Holder for Environmental Health and Clean Surroundings, pictured below, told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “We are very pleased to be involved in these trials, which we expect will allow a recycling rate of at least 50% – twice that currently achieved in Sedgemoor.”
“The trials will run from this May to April 2009. At the end of this period, decisions will be taken about continuing the new arrangements and, if affordable, extending the best collection options to other areas.”
Notification packs will be delivered to Burnham residents on the trial rounds shortly, which will include details of the new collections.
Bins and boxes for the new collections will then be delivered in early May and the trials will start during the week commencing 19th May.
The trial round in Burnham will involve approxmately 600 households and a roadshow with further details will be held on Tuesday 8th April from 10am-2pm at Burnham Community Centre in Berrow Road.
A second roadshow will be held on Wednesday 9th April from 2pm – 6pm at East Brent Village Hall in Jarvis Lane, East Brent, near Highbridge.
The ‘Sort It Plus’ trials will see weekly collections of food waste, with an internal caddy and external bin with lockable handle provided; plus continued recycling collections with a box provided for paper, glass, cans, foil, textiles and car batteries.
An additional stackable recycling box will be provided for plastic bottles and cardboard, and there will also be fortnightly collections. There will be an optional charge for composting garden waste collections.
