Dorset goes for clean sweep

19 January 2012 by Chris MacKenzie

Councillors in West Dorset have paved the way for countywide waste and recycling services after approving plans to share schemes with other councils from May 2014.

Officials say the move could save the authority more than £300,000 a year and nearly double recycling rates to 65 per cent.

With Christchurch Borough Council having also approved the scheme, and other councils considering it, only Bournemouth and Poole are yet to look at the plans.

The proposals would see one scheme replace the 12 currently operating across the county, with Dorset Waste Partnership carrying out the collections.

Under the plans there would be a weekly food waste collection and fortnightly recyclable and non-recyclable collections.

Residents would also be given new bins, including a seven-litre food waste kitchen caddy, a lockable food waste container, two wheelie bins for recyclable and non-recyclable waste, and a box for glass recycling.

There would also be a charge for a proposed fortnightly garden waste collection.

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