1. Recycling and Waste Team
William Gray
Bruce Smith

2. 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

3. June 2017

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

5. MRF
MHF
Co-mingling
Source Separation

6. 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

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

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

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

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

12. July 2017

14. 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

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

16. 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)

18. Autumn 2017

19. What’s next?

20. Southall Lane Materials Handling Facility
Winter 2017

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Questions?