Please Note: This decision will not come into force and may not be implemented until the expiry of 3 clear working days after its publication to enable it to be the subject to the Call-In Procedure in Rule 17.1 of the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules.
The closing date for Call-In is 5pm on the 22nd July 2024.
The improvements will see Black Bag collections introduced across ALL areas of the County Borough.
This mean that ALL residents, including Cynon and Taf will need to place their general waste out for collection in a maximum of THREE standard size (70L) Black Bags ONLY (as per current allowance) from w/c Monday 30th September 2024.
There will be:
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NO CHANGE to how often residents waste is collected, which will still be every 3 weeks,
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NO CHANGE to the maximum limit of 3 black bags per household, so they would be able to put out exactly the same amount,
- NO CHANGE to your weekly recycling services,
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NO CHANGE to their collection day or time.
Residents CAN keep their wheelie bin for storage until collection, but Black bags will need to be taken out of the bins and put out for collection at the normal collection day, time, and location, which is usually at the kerbside.
The standardisation of waste collections will ensure that:
- Improved recycling rates so that we hit the 70% Welsh Government Target.
- The Council can use its waste collection fleet more efficiently by having standardised vehicles across RCT, including the use of other smaller vehicles to collect black bags if larger collection lorries are not able to access a street due to parked cars.
- Residents and visitors will benefit from an improved streetscape, by removing the bins as obstructions in between collections from pavements;
- Residents will not have to wheel or carry wheelie bins through their homes or up and down garden steps.
- There are reduced costs by having a standardised collection fleet across RCT
- There is an improved efficiency of waste collections services for our residents.
This will mean:
- Households that use black bags can put out a maximum of THREE standard black bags (70l max) every three weeks.
- Wheeled bins can be kept for storage of waste in-between collections, but CAN'T be put out for collections.
- Dry recycling, nappy recycling, food waste recycling and garden waste recycling (seasonal) will remain unlimited and will be collected every week.
Of all the waste generated by an average household - including nappies, food and garden waste - 80% of it, if done right, can be recycled via our free weekly kerbside collections or our Community Recycling Centres.
Those who repeatedly fail to recycle could face a £100 fine. Fines will only be issued as a last resort following awareness-raising exercises and notices from enforcement officers.
There will be exceptions to the limits set on the black bag/bin waste, which will be rescinded over Christmas and New Year.
Households with exceptional circumstances, including those disposing of ash which cannot be recycled, can request an Additional Black Bags Allowance online or request an Assisted Collection online.