CHANGES TO WASTE SERVICES IN BRENT

A recent decision by Brent Council executive will introduce a new charge of £40, forty pounds, per annum to collect garden waste.  This will be an optional charge, which means you the resident will decide if you want to pay or not. Senior Citizens will be eligible for a 20% discount. You can also agree to share a green bin with your neighbour and share the cost. The cost works out at less than 80 pence per week.

Why are we doing this?

Government cuts mean we have to find 53million pounds of savings this year. This means cutting out some services and charging for others. It means difficult choices on where we spend limited resources. We also need to increase recycling to reduce overall waste collection that goes to expensive landfill. (See previous blogs on the need to recycle)

We do not have to collect garden waste as a statutory service for nothing; many other Councils have levied an annual charge for years or do not collect at all.  Not every house in Brent even has a green bin, including many in Fryent.

Weekly Food waste collection.

A new initiative will be the introduction of a new weekly collection of food waste. Every household in Brent, approx. 11000, and 8500 in Fryent will receive a new 23 litre sealable food waste container. A new recycling vehicle will collect food waste and dry recycling, your blue bin waste, ever week which will increase re cycling and save money. How? Any recycled waste is £70 pounds cheaper than anything in a grey bin going to landfill. Your collection day should not change and the new service should start in Spring next year 2015.Your Grey bin will collected every other week as now.

But it’s your choice, you can compost garden waste for free, you can take it to the Civic Amenity site in Abbey Road NW10 for free or pay to keep the green bin.

We hope these changes will make Brent a greener, cleaner borough that cares about future generations and thinks about recycling first.

Fryent Councillors  

RECYCLING IN BRENT UP 50%

Some more good news on the new recycling system introduced in October this year. Brent Council has hailed a dramatic improvement in recycling in the borough since the start of its new waste and recycling service with recycling rates rising by up to 50 per cent.

Figures released by Brent Council show that for the first month since 3 October this year, when the new waste and recycling service was introduced, the combined recycling rate of all organic and dry waste rose to 45 per cent in October from 31 per cent in September this year. Kerbside dry recycling alone rose by 50 per cent from 838 tonnes in September to 1,260 tonnes in October this year thanks to the switch from green boxes to blue-topped bins.

In addition, just 3,890 tonnes of waste were sent to landfill in October compared with 6,574 tonnes in September - a fall of 41 per cent.


Fryent Councillors Jim and Ruth Moher and George Crane said :
"We would like to applaud and thank all Fryent residents who have contributed to the success of Recycle More in its first month. These are tremendous figures and show that many more residents in Brent have taken to the new recycling service.”

"The less waste we send to landfill means we will have to pay less in carbon tax and we will as a borough have a less negative effect on the environment.”

YOUR WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE IS CHANGING FROM 3RD OCTOBER 2011

Do you know what the changes are and how they will affect you?

Check out this link http://www.brent.gov.uk/recyclemore.

It’s expensive to keep sending rubbish to landfill. Much of what we throw away can be recycled, reused or composted. Brent Council pays a landfill tax at £48/tonne in 2011. This will increase by £8 per tonne until 2014, when it will be £80 per tonne in 2014.

A little more thought about what we throw away could save a lot of money, be better for the economy and the environment. Lets put a stop to this!


Fryent Councillors, helping the Environment.