Mixed Dry Recyclate Treatment Service

Description

A trial is to be conducted to collect glass co-mingled with the other materials already collected in the green bin. This will allow the Council to make a timely and accurate assessment of the impact of collecting glass in this way, to inform a longer-term strategy for the best way to collect and recycle glass. In a way that considers issues such as the amount of household glass that is recovered for remelt, the extent to which other materials are affected by the glass and the customer's view on if this makes recycling at home simpler. Lot 1: This trial will allow the service to conduct a trial to co-mingle glass at the kerbside and access immediate savings generated both financially, environmentally and in terms of carbon reduction. Utilising the trial and allowing the impacts of DRS and EPR to become more clearly defined by the government and industry to a point where the eventual re-procurement can be undertaken safely in the full knowledge of what is expected to be collected (as a result of DRS) and what funding will be in place (through EPR).