Hertfordshire recycling enters a purple patch

10 January 2008

Household recycling has increased by up to 75% under an ongoing, ‘pay-as-you-throw’ pilot scheme in Hertfordshire.

The six-month scheme, undertaken by the Borough of Broxbourne, has also seen a significant decline in refuse collection to date. Under the project, 2,700 households in the pilot areas of Goffs Oak and Rye Park received 26 free purple sacks – one for each week of the six-month period – for non-recycable waste.

Additional sacks are available for 28p each, and a total of 1,336 were sold by 19 December. Results from the first six weeks of the scheme show an average 29% decline in refuse collected in Rye Park, and 22% in Goffs Oak.

Recycling increased by an average 75% in Rye Park and 26% in Goffs Oak during the same period. This was compared to the control area of Bury Green, which experienced minimal difference in both recycling and waste collection. In addition, the scheme had not had an adverse impact on the number of fly-tips or waste collected at the county-run household waste sites, according to the council report.

The council’s environmental services committee concluded: ‘The pilot has made a promising start, although it is too early to make accurate projections at this stage for 2007/08 and 08/09.’ The scheme is due to end in April, but the committee is calling for it to be continued.

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