Recycling and Waste Team William Gray Bruce Smith

Waste Composition Analysis (by weight) 33.4% - food waste 4.5% - garden waste 25% - dry recyclables 37.1% - non-recyclable Total “Diversion Opportunity” = 63%. May 2017

June 2017

June 2017 RCY Refresh Delivered boxes to 72,000 properties Envirocomms Campaigns advertising changes June 2017

MRF MHF Co-mingling Source Separation

Reasons for choosing source-separation in Hounslow Collection crews can spot contamination Better separation of materials More income Guaranteed to be recycled No glass shards Facilitates collection of textiles and electrical items Preferred option of focus groups

*Survey conducted June – August 2017 by EnviroComms – 17,626 residents contacted

*Survey conducted June – August 2017 by EnviroComms – 17,626 residents contacted

*Survey conducted June – August 2017 by EnviroComms – 17,626 residents contacted

*Survey conducted June – August 2017 by EnviroComms – 17,626 residents contacted

July 2017

Wholly owned subsidiary of LBH Branded as “Recycle 360” New fleet of vehicles “Bartec” management system Plan for new Materials Handling Facility at Southall Lane

Number of reported flytips *2017 figure - extrapolated from 9 months data

Red Box Contamination Issues We can recycle Food tins Drinks cans Aluminium foil Hard plastic food packaging Bottles Food trays (not expanded polystyrene) Tubs Pots We cannot recycle Random metal items Aluminium coated plastic Expanded polystyrene Random plastic household items Soft plastic Bags Crisp packets Film Wrapping Cellophane Plastic bottles for cleaning products such as washing up liquid and bleach (rinsed out)

Autumn 2017

What’s next?

Southall Lane Materials Handling Facility Winter 2017

Space Waye Space Waye will be closed the weekends of the 9th/10th December and 16th/17th December It will be re-opening to the public on the 18th December 7 days a week Winter 2017

Christmas Tree Collection Collection Days Collections due on 25th Dec will be carried out on Sat 23rd Dec Collections due 26th Dec – 5th Jan will be carried out 1 day later Garden Waste Collections will be suspended for the 2 weeks of 25th Dec – 6th Jan Wrapping Paper Plain wrapping paper will be collected for recycling Wrapping paper with plastic film, glitter or sellotape will not be collected Christmas Tree Collection Monday 8th Jan – Friday 19th Jan for all properties with individual collections A decision is pending for collections from communal properties Christmas 2017

2018 Restore recycling collections for flats-above-shops Review refuse and recycling service to communal properties Improved web-forms for reporting Bin & box replacement Littering during collection Other quality issues Staff development Further efforts on communications 2018

Questions?