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Recycling: What you need to know Cardiff Council is rolling out changes to your recycling collections. Here's how the new changes will affect you Wales is currently ranked 3rd in the world in recycling and Cardiff Council is hoping to work together with residents to get them to top place. Llandaff has been part of a recent trial that was deemed successful by Cardiff Council. The scheme is now being extended to all parts of Cardiff. Why Are The Changes Happening? Cardiff Council says: "By collecting your recycling in separate containers, already sorted, it'll improve the quality of the materials we collect from you. This means more of it will remain within the UK to be recycled to create new products - rather than being sent aboard - which reduces our carbon emissions and helps prevent climate change. "By providing you with a new reusable caddy and reusable sacks for your recycling, it'll significantly reduce our use of single-use plastic bags. We currently issue 24 million single-use plastic bags every year for your 'dry' recycling." The scheme follows trials held in Llandaff and other areas of Cardiff over the last few months. The Council added: "We've already rolled out these changes to around 10,000 homes 30 in a mix of areas across Cardiff, and we've seen an increase in the quality of recycling we've collected in those areas. "The changes are in line with the advised approach for all recycling and non-recycling waste collections across Wales set by Welsh Government, which will help meet its statutory target of recycling 70% of our nation's waste by 2025. "We currently recycle almost 62% of our waste," says the Council." How will this affect you? You will need to start sorting your 'dry' recyclable items into the separate containers that Cardiff Council will provide. You'll be issued with a blue caddy that's designed to take glass bottles and jars. You'll also receive a reusable red sack for assorted metals and plastics, and a blue sack for cardboard and paper. This effectively brings to an end the use of the green single-use plastic bags that are currently being used. The blue caddy will be collected every two weeks along with your usual black wheelie bin. The Council will also collect the contents of your red and blue sack every week. Food waste will continue as it always has done - in your brown food caddy, collected weekly. Garden waste will be collected from your green wheelie bins (or reusable white sacks) every two weeks between March and November. If you're signed up to the Council's hygiene waste service, they'll continue to collect this from your purple single-use bags every two weeks. Non-recyclable waste will continue to be collected from your black wheelie bins (or single-use black bags) every two weeks. If you do use bags, you may put out up to three black bags every two weeks. Your collection day won't change, unless the workers go on strike again, in which case, updates will be provided on the Council's website or phone app. What Else Is Changing? Cardiff Council will also be changing the vehicles that are used to collect waste. "You'll see us using new vehicles to collect your recycling. One of these vehicles looks like a standard refuse collection vehicle but it's specifically designed with different compartments at the rear to keep your recycling separate once we collect it," says the Council. All information taken from Cardiff Council's recycling handbook dated 12/2023
Food waste You'll already be familiar with your brown food caddy and this is one of the collections that aren't changing. They'll still be collected on a weekly basis so you can continue putting these out for collection as you have done previously. Items you CAN put in your food caddy include: ● used teabags and coffee grounds ● eggshells ● fruit and vegetable peelings ● raw and cooked meat and fish ● plate scrapings ● stale bread ● food that's no longer safe to eat ● animal food Items that CANNOT be put into the food caddy include: ● any kind of packaging ● liquids ● oils or fats ● coffee pods ● anything that is not food waste Black bins Non-recyclable waste will continue as it always has done, being collected in a Council-issued black wheelie bin or in up to three singleuse plastic bags. Items you CAN put in your black wheelie bin (or single-use black bags) include: ● black and brown plastic bottles, pots, tubs, and trays ● nappies ● all remaining household waste that can't be recycled If you need to get rid of plastic packaging, you can do this at 'outof-home' recycling points such as those at supermarkets. Blue caddy The blue caddy is a large, hard plastic container that's designed to take your empty bottles and jars. You'll be expected to empty and rinse all your glass items that you place in the caddy, and to remove any metal or plastic lids - these need to go in with your red sack for mixed metals, plastic and cartons. Items you CAN put in your blue caddy include: ● glass bottles, such as those used for beer, wine, and soft drinks ● glass jars, such as those used for baby food and sauces ● non-food and drink glasses, such as perfume, aftershave and creams Items that CANNOT be put into the blue caddy include: ● ceramics or china ● drinking glasses ● flat glass, such as mirrors ● nail varnish bottles Garden waste Garden waste will continue to be collected every two weeks between the months of March through to November. Items you CAN put in your green wheelie bin include: ● grass, leaves, and most weeds ● plants and flowers ● pet bedding used by non-meateating animals Items that CANNOT be put into the green wheelie bin include: ● soil, stones, or logs ● invasive weeds such as Japanese knotweed ● any garden furniture ● animal or human faeces climate Blue sack Your new blue sack is designed to take cardboard and paper. You'll need to flatten the cardboard to fit inside your blue sack where possible. If you can't fit it in your blue sack, you can place cardboard alongside it, providing that it does not measure more than 1m x 1m in size and that's not wet. All other cardboard will need to be kept dry or you risk not having it collected. Items you CAN put in your blue sack include: ● cardboard boxes, such as cereal boxes, toilet roll tubes and egg cartons ● greetings cards that don't have glitter on them ● boxes from online deliveries Items that CANNOT be put into the blue sack include: ● contaminated boxes eg. pizza ● food or drink cartons Hygiene waste If you are signed up to the Council's free hygiene waste collection service, these will still take place every two weeks. Items you CAN put in your single-use purple plastic bags include: ● nappies ● associated nappy changing waste, such as cotton wool, wet wipes, and nappy bags ● incontinence pads and bed liners Items that CANNOT be put into the single-use purple plastic bags include: ● catheters ● stoma or colostomy bags ● plasters or bandages ● needles or syringes ● sanitary waste ● vomit 31
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