Combined Executive Agenda 120410.pdf - North Ayrshire Council

6.5.2 Re-use of goods within the Council
The re-use of goods can be utilised both internally between services
and at a personal level amongst staff through the intranet and notice
boards.
The availability and transfer of surplus goods between services and
subscribing external organisations can further be promoted through the
use of the web-based ‘WARPit’ procurement tool. The tool allows
anyone purchasing goods to check whether those goods are held
within another part of the Council or within subscribing external
organisations and are surplus to their requirements.
6.6 Proposal - Increase range of materials collected for recycling and
composting
There are a number of proposals to divert waste from the residual
stream by increasing recycling and composting facilities, these are set
out below:-
6.6.1 Additional materials for recycling within Blue Bin Collections
New contractual arrangements for the re-processing of dry recyclable
materials (blue bin) will commence on the 9 th April 2012. These new
contractual arrangements will enable the following materials to be
added to the blue bin collection:-
• Glass
• Rigid Plastics
• Mixed Plastics (yogurt pots, plastic trays, plastic wrap, carrier bags
etc.)
The addition of these materials will enable the cessation of the current
separate glass collection service provided to households on the
mainland and Cumbrae thus reducing the number of containers
provided, reducing the need for residents to separate glass from other
recyclable materials and providing a more cost efficient collection
method by reducing the number of collection vehicles required. The
provision of regular, simple and easy to use services encourages
residents to recycle more of the waste they produce.
In addition to the ability to recycle a full range of plastic materials the
new contractual arrangements will also enable the introduction of
kerbside collections of glass from households on Arran.
6.6.2 Provide food waste collection to households on the mainland and
Cumbrae
The waste compositional analysis has identified that food waste
accounts for up to 27% of material that can be removed from the
kerbside collection of residual waste (grey bin). Furthermore the
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