Residents are being asked to take part in Aberdeenshire Council’s Big Recycling Challenge by giving their views on the authority’s recycling and waste services to help recycle more materials and send less to landfill.
Aberdeenshire’s recycling rate is currently only 43.5%. However, a recent analysis of landfill bins from households across the region shows the recycling rate could be more than 70% if the recycling services currently available were used effectively.
Garden waste is collected at recycling centres and at additional seasonal recycling points. Residents are being asked to consider whether alternative arrangements would help.
This could mean the introduction of a paid-for kerbside collection or reduced frequency of landfill bin collections to allow garden waste to be lifted from households using the same bin lorries.
It is thought the cost of a paid-for garden waste collection could be in the region of £40 to £50 per household per year.
Other possible changes could include smaller landfill waste bins.
Give your views on the Big Recycling Challenge here: http://bit.ly/RecyclingAbshireSurvey
The survey is rubbish (pardon the pun) totally geared towards the council cutting the current service in some way or another.
The survey has been pretty farcical which is such a shame.
Sounds like the council are being tasked with improving the service whilst also reducing the cost, not an easy task for anyone.
If they’d been a bit more explicit and transparent about this I imagine the survey would have been received better. As it stands I can see many residents are starting but then refusing to complete it due to the feeling their responses are being forced to achieve an already determined outcome.
I agree. “If you had to choose…” but with no option of further input. It makes it feel like the selection is agreement to one or the other, when neither is acceptable.
A difficult task to improve / provide some services by cutting others – especially when those others are already so inadequate for many homes. I felt a bit uncomfortable answering the questions the way they were written.
I sympathise. I put in a comment about that at the end of the survey.
I am told that more than a thousand responses have been received so far.
wrong article ? What about the 3 houses at a farm ?
Something has gone wrong with the link. It should be https://upa.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=O987BQCAGED00
What more do they need us to do Correct bins out every time and trip to the new site with extras, Is Portlethen a problem ??
Portlethen is no more a problem than anywhere else. Unfortunately not everyone is putting the right stuff in the right bin!