Learn from Industry experts and experienced Local Authority staff who will share key insights and tools needed for adding missing materials such as cartons and foils to collections for Simpler Recycling household collections.
The webinar and its supporting resources cover the key planning requirements, the contractual considerations and best practice templates, shares experiences from Councils adding new materials, key assumptions to use in planning and design and gives tips to avoid costly mistakes.
Key messages
(1) Although smaller quantities these materials have important environmental and financial value.
(2) Engage early with your sorting facility to ensure that contracts can be amended for the materials to be included.
(3) To maximise capture plan out how the materials would be incorporated into the collection system; foils scrunched, cartons with the container stream.
(4) Important to communicate the need for these materials to be clean and contaminant free.
FAQs and Key Links
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Change network – Simpler Recycling Collections: Adding missing dry material to a collection
If you have any further questions on adding missing materials to a collection, please direct them to ChangeNetwork@defra.gov.uk
