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mal55
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Is this just a local decision then??? Here's what the council have said to me:
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"Please see the attached response to your email received on Thursday 12 May 2011.
Kind regards
Waste Services Officer
This e-mail expresses the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the view of the Council. Please be aware that anything included in an e-mail may have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act and cannot be regarded as confidential. This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. Please notify the sender if received in error. All Email is monitored and recorded.
BROWN RECYCLING BIN CHANGES
The recent change to the arrangements for managing fruit and vegetable waste has been prompted by the previous outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The outbreak was attributed to inadequately treated food waste being fed back to cattle. This prompted the introduction of Regulations governing the processing of waste Animal By-Products (meat and meat products, dairy, eggs, etc) and other foodstuffs that may have come into contact with this material.
Regulatory agencies locally (Animal Health, Environment Agency) have now determined that even fruit and vegetable wastes processed within a domestic or commercial kitchen in which animal by-products have also been prepared, could be cross contaminated and as such must now be subject to the same regulatory regime.
To prevent food waste going to landfill we are in support of a national campaign called Love Food Hate Waste, which provides helpful hints and tips to reduce the amount of food waste created in the first instance. Please see the following link.
The following items can also be placed in the brown bin for recycling:
� Grass clippings
� Light garden prunings and hedge trimmings
� Flowers and pot plants
� Leaves
� Small twigs and branches
It was revealed during a detailed compositional analysis that only a very small proportion (<8%) of the material collected in the brown wheeled bins is food and kitchen waste. This proportion is even smaller by volume.
The additional cost to landfill this material is also only a fraction of expenditure that would be incurred if the whole of the combined green and food waste stream were processed in accordance with the requirements of the Animal By-Products Regulations. By removing the food waste we are able to continue composting the remaining green waste using open windrow techniques at a much reduced fee.
We are encouraging residents to home compost as it is a natural form of recycling garden and kitchen waste such as vegetables, plants and leaves into a quality compost at virtually no cost to you. Fruit and vegetable waste can be put into a home composter as they are not regulated by the same restrictions a large scale composting site is. Keeping certain items out of your compost bin such as cooked vegetables and meat will prevent odours and unwanted pests. For further information please see our home composting web pages.
Whilst we will no longer be collecting fruit and vegetable waste at the kerbside, you should have received information with your green and blue box collection calendar detailing the new small electrical scheme that will commence on Monday 16 May. This enables residents to recycle their old and unwanted small electricals including kettles, toasters and many other small electrical items at the kerbside alongside their blue and green recycling boxes. This scheme has been organised by our contractors Palm Recycling Ltd who collect the kerbside recycling boxes and textile sack on behalf of the council and is at no extra cost to the authority.
I trust this has responded to your queries.
Yours sincerely " |
Sorry it's a bit long. How the heck would waste for composting be fed to livestock! They didn't even bother to reply to my enquiry as to the exact stage at which garden waste such as salad thinnings, damaged cabbage leaves and windfall fruit become toxic waste!!
I'd always believed that the high temperatures at which local authorities compost waste meterial sterilized it anyway.
The only reason I can see for this is saving money through getting rid of the compostable material bins in a lot of areas with small or no gardens. |
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We Mid Suffolk/Babergh have to pay �40 a year for a brown bin, grass cuttings, hedge trimmings. veg peelings etc, but it's processed at a high temp composter thingy and then given away at specific sites on advertised dates throughout the two districts as "soil improver". Needless to say as I compost everything here, so don't do the �40 bin, I just turned up with a dozen sacks, a van, a son and two shovels at the give away event 2 miles away! I wished I'd been as greedy as some of the other "customers", as I've nearly used all that I got, yes I've picked out plastic, wire, stones, coal but otherwise it's fine!
I don't think some of the townies can distinguish what is compostable and just sling all "Garden waste" in, so that broken flowerpot, wrappings from a plant from the garden centre etc are indeed garden waste, must be OK!!!
Norwich now collects all waste food (cooked and raw) at the kerbside, but they are very fussy what goes in their general recycling bin, I visited their processing site last year - very interesting, but I feel they could do more.
I think I've mentioned it on here before, I have Green Cone for other rottable waste - cooked food, dog poo, but only actually put cooked poultry bones and poo in it as dogs and hens clear any of the rare leftovers! |
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However, even in a vegetarian household you can't feed veg peelings to your livestock legally, because it seems perfectly legal to contaminate your veg with animal by-products.
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