| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Plastics Recycling in Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 20/02/18 12:38:00 |
| Lobbying everywhere, lack of leadership, reliance on markets and different contracts together with differing facilities and methods for dealing with it. Then there is legislation and different ways of reading statistics. Years ago when I went around a facility where plastic bottles were being processed - all sorts but particularly plastic milk bottles (HDPE) - sorting and then ending up as plastic pellets ready for sending off to be made back into plastic milk bottles they were calling out for more feedstock. Interestingly this feedstock was being bought just as you would other raw materials in the marketplace ie totally differently from the way that the Councils sign contracts for 25 years etc from the big international waste companies. Just the other day I read about a Council who has decided to bring their contract back in-house because the offer from the big waste company was for a reduced service not a better or improved one. As we have seen with some large companies recently whatever the contract seems to be that doesn't appear to mean that you get what you think you are paying for. If you have to spend a lot of time and energy overseeing contracts when you feel that having outsourced means that you should have reduced this it can end up not being a saving at all. Any changes to a system is a major effort and expenditure to communicate to residents. WRAP is attempting to bring the differing collections in line with each other so that it won't be so difficult (ie petty) when you move from one place to another. http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/plastic-bottle-recycling One of the biggest problems is contamination of this feedstock is food waste. Please rinse out your plastics and use your food waste bin! |