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RNZ News
30-06-2025
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- RNZ News
New recycling rules one year on
It's now been more than a year since legislation aligned recycling rules for most of the country, how has that gone? The changes meant only plastics numbered 1, 2 and 5 would be collected by kerbside recyclers and that all lids would have to be removed and put in the rubbish. At the time of the change in February last year 16 per cent of items in recycling bins was typically not able to be recycled and were contaminating bins. The alignment was for all councils with kerbside recycling to follow the same rules, as previously they differed per region. So now that it has been more than a year since the changes, how have they gone, and how much of our plastic is still being bundled off to buyers overseas? The Ministry for the Environment's general manager of waste systems and operations Shaun Lewis. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
BBC News
20-05-2025
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- BBC News
Fareham plastic and glass recycling scheme put on hold
Plans to extend a kerbside recycling scheme have been put on hold due to a lack of facilities to process Borough Council had hoped to boost its collections to include plastic trays, pots and tubs and Hampshire County Council, which is responsible for waste disposal, first needs to build a new £50m plastics were collected the authority would incur additional costs to dispose of the material via a third-party or it could choose to get rid of it as remedial waste. The Simpler Recycling scheme is due to come into effect for all households in England from 31 March government initiative aims to make recycling more straight forward by standardising waste collection and introducing separate streams for recyclable County Council needs to build a new materials recovery facility (MRF).More than £50m is being spent on a new MRF at Chickenhall Lane in Eastleigh and repurposing a site in Portsmouth, according to the Local Democracy Reporting the legal requirement, Defra has agreed to delay the start date in Hampshire to delay means council officers have recommended no change to dry recycling collections is made by Fareham Borough Council until the new MRF is authority says plans for kerbside food recycling are progressing says the council needs to publish a simpler recycling compliance timeline.A new 12-month temporary post will be set up to help residents in Fareham with their Sarah Ward said: "More engagement with residents means there are better recycling outcomes."Additional glass collection points were also recommended for approval on council land before 30 March 2026. You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
