Achieving 65% Plus
By working together, local residents and the city council can achieve our recycling and recovery target of over 65 per cent. Peterborough produces around 100,000 tonnes of household waste each year. The contents of the green bins go to the materials recycling facility (MRF) to be separated and sent for reprocessing.
A £1 million MRF upgrade – funded by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the city council and MRF operator Viridor Waste Management – means householders have been recycling glass bottles and jars through their green bins since March 2008. New opportunities to recycle more materials, such as additional types of plastics, are always being investigated.
Organic garden material collected in brown wheelie bins undergoes a ‘windrow’ process to become compost. The councillor-led cross-party Members’ Waste and Recycling Working Group is investigating options for collecting and treating kitchen food waste, which currently goes into black bins and is landfilled.
The city council’s award-winning Electrical Appliance Recycling Programme (EARP) repairs electrical goods and works with local community and charity groups to provide needy families with refurbished electrical products while also recovering components for re-use and further recycling.
Peterborough City Council has purchased an existing 61,200 sq ft factory unit in Storeys Bar Road to accommodate a larger Materials Recycling Facility. The existing materials recycling site in Fourth Drove, Fengate, will be developed as an energy-from-waste plant to generate electricity and heat for local use.
More information about the materials that should go in green, brown and black bins.
Peterborough’s MRF has received a £1 million upgrade so that we can recycle more.
Peterborough added glass to the materials it can recycle in March 2008.
