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Household recycling collections
One of the most noticeable service improvements has been to Torbay's recycling and waste services. These great new recycling and waste services started on 6th September 2010 and have helped Torbay increase recycling and cut down on the amount of waste ending up in landfill. Torbay is currently at a recycling rate of 45%.
Improvements to household recycling collections:
• a weekly collection of recycling from all households
• an increased range of recyclable materials collected at kerbside
• a new weekly food waste collection for all food waste, including food waste and scraps that are not suitable for home composting, and which would currently go to landfill
• new recycling containers - recycling boxes, a kitchen food waste caddy and food waste bin, to replace the large, green recycling wheeled bin, for those households that have them, and allow residents to separate their waste, leading to purer materials for re-processing and provide facilities for better and more flexible recycling storage
• same day recycling and residual waste collections, making it easy to remember collection days
• improved recycling for flats with shared facilities, including:
• an increased range of materials collected
• new weekly collections of food waste
• comparable recycling and waste services to other local areas currently achieving higher recycling rates than Torbay
• a waste collection solution tailored to Torbay
Benefits of improvements:
• 22% reduction in household residual waste tonnage in 2010 increasing to 40% in 2013
• nearly 12,000 tonnes per annum of materials diverted from landfill into recycling from 2011, which is the equivalent of filling 40 Olympic sized swimming pools
• a 2,267 tonnes per annum reduction in overall waste arisings due to the behavioural change caused by separate collection of food waste
• kerbside collected recycled tonnage almost doubled by 2012
• kerbside collected recycling and composting rate increased from 35% to 45% in the first year and achievement of the 50% recycling target by 2012 (5 years early) and providing parity with other local areas
Recycling servicesFrom 6th September all residents will receive the Recycling Box Collection and the Food Waste Collection services.
Your new recycling and waste collection services leaflet
Click here to download the leaflet as a PDF
Recycling box collection
TOR2 will be increasing the range of recyclable items collected as part of the new recycling services. Residents will be provided with two recycling boxes to store the items in, which will be collected weekly. To find out what materials can be collected in the boxes visit the Recycling Box Collection page.
Food waste collection
All food waste, cooked and uncooked, can be put in the food waste bin, for example, meat and fish (including bones), dairy products, bread, fruit and vegetables. Residents who home compost can use this service to collect food they cannot compost, such as cooked food, meat and fish. To recycle food waste residents will be provided with a food waste kitchen caddy and lockable food waste bin, to find out how to use these containers to make recycling food waste easy, visit the Food Waste Collection page.
Further links:
Collection days
Why change to the new recycling and waste services
Waste doctors
Recycling box collection
Food waste collection
Bank Holiday collections
Special collections
Garden waste
