You have just over a month left to help shape a ten-year strategy on how Wiltshire Council collects and manages household waste and recycling.
A consultation got under way last month to canvass your views to ensure the strategy is representative of your opinions and enables you to reduce, re-use and recycle the waste you produce at home. The consultation is open until 14th November and can be found at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/ waste. Alternatively you can request a paper copy by calling 0300 456 0102. So far, more than 2,270 people have provided their feedback via the consultation.
Wiltshire Council say that it currently costs the council upwards of £30million per year to manage all of Wiltshire’s household waste and recycling, so it is important that its long-term strategy is affordable. Currently, each Wiltshire household produces on average 566 kg of non-recycled waste per year. The council has to pay to collect and manage waste and recyclable materials. Not all recycling has a value; any income that is generated from recycling goes towards offsetting a small part of the cost of delivering the service.
Bridget Wayman, cabinet member for waste said, “ We’ve had a really strong response to the consultation so far and there’s still plenty of time for more people to tell us what they think.
“The more responses we get, the clearer the picture will be of what people want from their waste management service, and that will really help with our long-term planning.”
Following the consultation, the draft version of the strategy will be reported to the council’s environment select committee, cabinet, and full council for consideration and adoption in 2018.