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New recycling
scheme
extended to city
Cardiff Council has launched its
new recycling scheme that aims to
improve the quality and quantity of
the city's recycling.
The scheme, which has already
been rolled out in Rhiwbina,
requires residents to separate
their recycling into three reusable
containers: a blue caddy for glass, a
red sack for metal and plastic, and a
blue sack for paper and cardboard.
The Council says that this will help
reduce contamination, increase
recycling rates, and save money on
waste disposal.
The new scheme follows a sixmonth
trial that involved 17,000
households in different areas of the
city. According to the Council, the
trial showed that separate recycling
collections increased the amount
of recycling by 9% and reduced the
amount of general waste by 6%.
The Council also claims that
the trial saved £113,000 in waste
disposal costs and generated
£49,000 in additional income from
Gabalfa Primary
School earns
praise in recent
selling recyclable materials.
The Council hopes that the new
scheme will help Cardiff achieve
its target of recycling 70% of its
waste by 2025, as well as reduce its
carbon footprint and environmental
impact. The Council says that
recycling more and wasting less will
benefit the city and its residents in
the long term, as well as contribute
to the national and global efforts to
tackle climate change and resource
depletion.
The Council will contact residents
when their property is moving to the
new scheme and provide them with
the new containers and information
leaflets. The Council will also offer
support and advice to residents on
how to use the new system and
what to do with their leftover green
bags. The Council urges residents
to embrace the change and do their
part to make Cardiff a greener and
cleaner city.
Council tax to rise
6% in Cardiff with
cuts planned
inspection Cardiff Council has proposed a 6%
increase in Council Tax, double the
A calm, purposeful and happy amount that was originally planned
primary school in Cardiff has earned for its 2024/25 budget.
praise from Estyn inspectors for In return, the Council has changed
its inclusive, nurturing learning its mind on plans to get rid of public
environment where pupils make bins on residential streets in the city,
good progress.
in addition to other ideas put out to
Gabalfa Primary School, in Colwill consultation by the local authority.
Road, had 252 pupils on roll at the The Council is looking to plug a
time of inspection with 43.8% eligible budget gap of £30m.
for free school meals and 16.8% with Proposals to reduce black bin bag
English as an additional language. collections to once every three weeks
The school has earned praise for its are still in the Council's thoughts and
ethos, its curriculum, the quality of its this policy is expected to be brought
teaching staff and the effectiveness of into effect later in the year, providing
its governing body.
the budget proposals pass a Council
Inspectors praised the school for vote next month.
providing an ‘inclusive, nurturing Cardiff Council is expecting to
environment' for its pupils, where they cut around 160 jobs over the next
feel ‘safe and valued.' They noted that financial year, many through nonreplacement
of current vacancies.
pupils make ‘good overall progress
within a calm, purposeful and happy There was some good news for
environment,' and that staff have ‘high councils earlier this year when the
expectations of themselves and their UK government announced that it
pupils.'
would increase its local government
settlement by £600m.
news
Rhiwbina
Society news
The Right Honourable The Lord
Mayor of Cardiff, Councillor Bablin
Molik, is guest of honour at the
Rhiwbina Society’s March meeting.
She will be giving a talk on her life
as Cardiff Mayor.
The complete schedule of talks
for the next few months is as
follows:
19 March: A Year in the life of Cardiff
Lord Mayor – Councillor Bablin
Molik, The Right Honourable The
Lord Mayor of Cardiff
16 April: TBA
21 May: Working as a war artist and
other items of local interest with
Dan Peterson
18 June: The Lisvane and Llanishen
Reservoirs with Vanessa Brown,
Ranger
Meetings are held in the Canolfan
Beulah, Beulah Road, Rhiwbina,
CF14 6AX, starting at 7.30 pm.
Admission is £2 for members and
£4 for non-members.
For further information, please see
their website,
www.therhiwbinasociety.org or their
Twitter/X or Facebook page. You
can also phone 07811 509490.
Rhiwbina
Squirrels to take
on new roles
Plans to help Rhiwbina RFC access
new funding opportunities and
secure investment in existing
facilities at Caedelyn Park have
been revealed.
The club is set to become the
latest community sports club in
Cardiff to take on responsibility for
the management and maintenance
of facilities and pitches in the park
where they play.
The new arrangements, which
are proposed for a 40-year term,
cover the changing rooms, toilets,
and a bungalow, as well as allowing
the club preferential use of the
adjoining sports pitches. The
arrangement will enable the club to
access new funding streams which
are unavailable to local authorities,
and to help secure investment to
improve the facilities.
All facilities will remain in the
ownership of Cardiff Council.