Councils could save up to £65,000 a year with new waste transfer station in South Holland

Up to £65,000 a year could be saved if there was a new waste transfer station, says the man in charge of South Holland’s refuse collections.

Coun Jack Tyrrell, South Holland District Council’s portfolio holder for environmental services, wants to save the authority’s bin lorries the 14 mile trip to Boston recycling centre by having a closer site.

His budget has recently been reimbursed with £65,000 by Lincolnshire County Council to cover the costs of travelling between the district and the Boston station.

At the recent Sutton Bridge Parish Council meeting Coun Tyrell expressed that a local transfer point in Spalding would be more beneficial.

He said: “Personally I am hoping for a new tip where we take our rubbish. That’s the idea.

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“It would be good for the county council to have a new transfer place so we don’t have to travel all the way to Boston.

“I would like a transfer station which needs to be big enough to deal with recycling and easier to access.

“Where I do not know. “

Coun Tyrrell has suggested that the Spalding Waste and Recycling Centre in West Marsh Road as a potential site for a waste transfer station.

He said: “Travelling to Boston is not really my problem and it gives the county council a reason to have a tip nearer.

“A new tip is part of my plan over the next five years while I hold this position.”

Coun Tyrrell told the meeting that the authority has a fleet of 26 lorries. He also said that only 334 homes out of a total of 45,000 per week had their collections missed.

He said: “The men and women on the lorries work hard and get slated but it is the ones that are missed where people shout the loudest.

“Our role affects every household and people don’t realise that there is always usually a reason.

“We say we will collect bins at 6am but they don’t put them out until 10am.”

“Also there have been an extra 2,000 homes built but we still have the same amount of lorries.”

Coun Tyrell also told the meeting that he could not understand the reasons behind fly tipping while his workers give a good service.

He said: “Why we get fly tipping is beyond me.

“If people just call we will collect it for you.

“It costs £10 to take away a washing machine, that's all it costs but people think it will cost a fortune.

“It will probably cost you more giving it to a bloke in a white van and I’d rather we collect it than it ending up in a dyke.”

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