Recycling rates improve with three-weekly bin collections

Recycling rates have improved since three-weekly refuse collections have been adopted

Recycling rates have improved where three-weekly refuse collections have been adopted, a report by independent consultancy Eunomia has revealed.

Locally, the kerbside recycling rate has improved by 16.7% since three-weekly bin collections were adopted three years ago.

Councillor Neil Emmott, cabinet member for environment at Rochdale Borough Council, said: “In October 2015, we changed the way we collected waste in Rochdale and introduced a three-weekly cycle of dry recyclables and waste, alongside a new weekly collection of food and garden waste.

“Since then, recycling rates have increased from 37 per cent to 53.7 per cent in 2017/18.

“The efforts of residents across the borough and the work by the waste and recycling teams has meant that we’ve achieved our target of 50 per cent for kerbside recycling two years early.”