Recycle For Calderdale

The Calderdale and Bradford shared waste treatment project;

Waste Disposal

Calderdale Council is working with Bradford Council for a long term alternative to landfill for disposal of waste.
Householders in Calderdale produce around 90,000 tonnes of waste every year of which over 40% is recycled. This is a big percentage increase in recycling following the introduction of the new recycling service in April 2009. But we want to do even better and at the moment a lot of our waste ends up in landfill sites.
A 25 year arrangement is proposed, providing for the treatment of up to 50,000 tonnes of waste from Calderdale and approximately 200,000 tonnes per year from neighbouring Bradford Council.

To find out more visit www.bradford.gov.uk/wastetreatment

IMPORTANCE NOTICE - NO EXCESS WASTE 14th JUNE 2010;

We will only take waste if it is completely inside your wheelie bin with the lid closed flat. If you don't have a wheelie bin, a maximum of 5 standard issued bin bags will be taken on collection day.

This message constitutes notification of a change to your refuse collection service as required by the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Section 46.

For more help and advice please call 0845 245 7000

Meet The Bin Doctor;

In our last edition of Calderdale Call you may well have seen the cartoon strip featuring the Bin Doctor. Our very own Bin Doctor will be giving his invaluable recycling advise over the coming few weeks in the Halifax Courier series of newspapaers, so look out for him and be sure that his advise is good and will not only keep your bin in good health but the environment in Calderdale too!

May day changes;

Please check your collection dates over the May bank holiday week. There will be no collections on Monday 31st May 2010 then all collections that week will be one day later finishing with Friday the 4th's collection being on Saturday 5th June.

All Household Waste Recycling (HWRC) will be open o n Monday 31st May but on Sunday opening hours only.

Thank you for your cooperation

The Recycle for Calderdale Team

for more information call Street Care Helpline on 0845 245 7000

Happy 1st Birthday to our new improved recycling service!;

On 20th April, 2009 we introduced Calderdale's new improved recycling service, with new collections for food and plastic bottles; new containers - wheelie bins wherever they were appropriate, and new rounds with Week A and B collections of Recycling and Refuse! But how well have we done in the year in between, and what do you think about the new service?

We are pleased to announce that, despite some inevitable difficulties with such major changes, the new service launch has been a resounding success! We are now recycling over 40% of our household waste compared with 25% before the new service launch.

Further still, recycling tonnage from our household collections is up 139%, Household Waste Recycling Centre tonnage up 20% and non-recyclable waste has gone down 30%. As a result the Council's landfill tax payments have reduced by nearly 10%.

At Christmas we invited Calderdale residents to give us their views on the new service by participating in the Recycle for Calderdale online competition; and over 10,000 of you took part! The results were overwhelmingly positive: 89% of you said that you were either very satisfied (45%) or satisfied (44%) with the new service. By contrast, just 4% said that they were dissatisfied (3%) or very dissatisfied (1%).

But that's no grounds for complacency; you want to recycle more! From the individual comments made, the largest number were requests for additional recycling materials to be collected: cardboard, other types of plastic and green waste. The Council is now considering those suggestions.

So that really is a Happy 1st Birthday!

To help us recycle more we've got our very own Bin Doctor to give us some helpful recycling advice! Look out for the Bin Doctor in future editions of Calderdale Call for more handy tips!

	Food waste caddies – 3 bags per week Nationally most households make a food caddie liner last on average 2-3 days, only using around 3 bags per week. Please help us reduce food bag usage by making sure they're full before putting them in the outside caddy.
	Just one wheelie bin OR 5 black bags By recycling as much as possible there should be far less refuse left over for your fortnightly collection. Please help us by keeping within your allocation of one wheelie bin load with the lid shut (or 5 black bin liners for those properties without a wheelie bin) per collection. If you believe your allocation of bins/bags is not sufficient, call Street Care Helpline on 0845 245 7000 and we will be happy to advise.
	Leave out the right waste on the right days There are weekly collections of food waste and plastic bottles, and fortnightly collections of glass, cans, paper, textiles and refuse. To find out what to leave out on which days, check your collection calendar, use the postcode look-up on the website or call Street Care Helpline on 0845 245 7000. Please take extra care to check your calendar at bank holiday times as the collection days are different.

IMPORTANT NOTICE - changes to your Easter recycling and refuse collections;

Easter Recycling and Refuse Collection changes

As from Saturday 27th March 2010, waste collection services in Calderdale over the Easter period will be changed. All collections from 27th March and before Easter will be one day earlier than normal. All collections after Easter will be one day later than normal until Saturday 10th April 2010.

Usual Day	Scheduled Day
Monday 29th March	Saturday 27th March
Tuesday 30th March	Monday 29th March
Wednesday 31st March	Tuesday 30th March
Thursday 1st April	Wednesday 31st March
Friday 2nd April	Thursday 1st April
Monday 5th April	Tuesday 6th April
Tuesday 6th April	Wednesday 7th April
Wednesday 7th April	Thursday 8th April
Thursday 8th April	Friday 9th April
Friday 9th April	Saturday 10th April

There will be no collections from Good Friday 2nd April 2010 until Tuesday 6th April 2010. Normal collections resume Monday 12th April.

Please put out your containers on these changed days over the Easter period. Calderdale Council and Sita UK apologise for any inconvenience caused and would like to wish everyone a happy Easter.

For more information call Street Care helpline 0845 245 7000.

Waste & Recycling Collections update (4th February);

Due to the snow falling late on Wednesday afternoon and the freezing temperatures over the previous night, there were some some missed collections yesterday (Wendesday).

RECYCLING
A small amount of outlying farms in the Wainstalls area and a large housing estate at Norton Drive in the Highroad Well area were missed yesterday. These places will be visited today with a spare vehicle and hopefully, if conditions allow, will receive their outstanding recycling collections.

REFUSE
Refuse collections did not fair quite so well. Conditions to some outlying farms in the Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden, Soyland, Luddendenfoot and Cragg Vale were too dangerous to attempt collection.

SITA have been able to put in place one additional vehicle to revisit these un-serviced areas today but only where safe to do so.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

PRESS RELEASE - waste and recycling catch up;

All outstanding refuse and recycling collections were completed by lunchtime on Saturday 30th January.

All refuse and recycling services will now resume as per the scheduled collections.

The Council and SITA appreciate your patience and understanding whilst we have been catching up with the missed collections due to the weather conditions over recent weeks.

IMPORTANT NOTICE - waste and recycling collections resume;

IMPORTANT NOTICE

As planned, SITA have started their scheduled collections for this week.

Those customers who are not due a waste collection this week will have a collection next week, weather permitting. Please refer to your calendar if in any doubt.

All recycling materials presented will be removed and recycled irrelevant of what week it is.
Refuse collection crews will remove all excess bagged and boxed waste presented until such time as the back log is clear.

This is a rolling programme: if scheduled work is not completed by the end of the day, that work will recommence on the following day. The following day's collection schedule will not be started until the previous one is completed.

Using additional resources and working Saturday 23rd and 30th January 2010, the current situation should be resolved.

Household Waste Collections Update;

Household waste collections in Calderdale have resumed today.

Collections were suspended on Tuesday because of the dangerous weather conditions and crews have been unable to carry out collections safely until today.

Mark Thompson, Calderdale Council’s head of housing and environment, said crews would be starting today on main roads and other roads which are safe to access which had not received collections over the previous four days, including today (week A collections).

“From Monday, January 11, weather permitting, we will be starting the scheduled weekly collection service – week B collections.

Additional resources will be deployed throughout all of next week to assist in clearing the backlog from this week’s week A collections.

“We know people are concerned about when their waste will be collected but we would ask residents to be patient.

“Working with Sita we have been doing our best to clear the backlog but the poor weather conditions have hampered some of our efforts.

“In the meantime, we would ask that householders place out their bins, sacks and recyclable materials as normal. We will collect all recycling materials regardless of which week it is. All additional waste will be removed at this time.

“In addition all five household waste recycling sites in Calderdale remain open as usual but please take care as some access roads remain icy.

“I would like to thank people for their patience and understanding and ask that they bear with us.”

If you have any further queries you should contact the Council’s Contact Centre on 0845 245 6000.