Purple bag paper and card collection could be rolled out to more of South Holland by start of 2025
Purple bags could be used in more of South Holland by the start of 2025.
The separate paper and card collection is already used in some parts of our district - such as Pinchbeck - and is set to be rolled out over the rest of Lincolnshire in the next two years.
Lincolnshire County Council’s Environment and Economy Committee was given an update last week.
Rachel Stamp, the council’s waste partnership and project manager, said: “It is anticipated that potentially by the end of 2024, early 2025, hopefully be able to do that.
“There are all sorts of local issues that waste collection authorities have got to manage in terms of their own priorities and workload but in an ideal world we would have everybody rolled in by 2025, though I can’t guarantee that.”
Four of the county’s seven districts have implemented separate dry paper and cardboard bins, leading to a total of 13,909 tonnes of separate fibre being collected up to February 2023.
Prior to the scheme being introduced, the average contamination rate was 31% but was now around 15%.
Paper re-processor Palm Recycling, which has a facility in King’s Lynn, found that the waste it received from the council had an average contamination rate of just 1.5%.
Coun Ashley Baxter asked if the roll-out to other authorities could take place any quicker “given the enormous success of the scheme”.
However, Rachel told members that one of the ‘success criteria’ had been taking roll-outs on a ‘step by step’ basis.
In parts of South Holland, households have a purple bag collected every fortnight, alternating with the green recycling collection.