Selby District Councils Commercial Recycling Scheme

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Selby District Councils Commercial Recycling
Scheme

• Stuart Henshaw

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Selby District

• Rural District
• 3 main settlements
• 2227 Business Rate Payers
• Commercial Waste Contracts
• 850 Businesses

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Commercial Recycling Drivers

• Requests from businesses
• Opposition from private sector
• Losing business to major players
• Implementation from Members
• Local processor for paper card
• Priority for Schools recycling
• Education Programme

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Encouraging Businesses

• Commercial Waste bad experience
• Contracts antiquated with complex pricing
• Product called SORTED
• SORTED Membership
• Membership certificate
• Fact sheets information leaflets
• Posters, stickers, letterhead emblem
• CD-Rom
• Helping environment by reducing waste going to
  landfill
• Saving money

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Market Research Questionnaire

• 42 response rate
• 2. Are customers impressed by businesses that
  recycle?
• 22 Definitely
• 59 Possibly
• 7 Possibly Not
• 3. Would you be willing to recycle?
• 45 Paper Card only
• 2 Glass only
• 40 Both

• 800 questionnaires
• 1. Asked opinions on SORTED membership scheme.
• 44 Do not need incentive
• 26 Great incentive
• 18 Need added incentives, such as reduction in
  charges
• 7 Want substantial savings

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Implementation of Recycling Scheme

• Most cost effective option
• Initial consideration using existing round
• Commercial Waste
• 5 day round
• Commercial Recycling
• 3 day round
• 2 days collect paper and card from businesses,
  schools communal banks
• 1 day collect recycling from bring banks

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How the scheme works

• Businesses provided with bins/boxes
• Materials recycled
• Paper, cardboard, envelopes, catalogues,
  brochures, telephone directories, newspapers
  magazines
• Collected frequently weekly or fortnightly
• Taken to local paper mill in Selby
• Income

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Potential Savings for Customers

• Commercial Waste Charges
• Rental, Collection Disposal
• Commercial Recycling Charges
• Pay Rental Collection
• No disposal charges

• Example
• If a business has 2x1100 litre refuse bins
  emptied weekly
• Annual Charge 931.04
• SORTED Scheme (assuming ½ waste is paper card)
  1x1100 refuse bin 1x1100 litre recycling bin
• Annual Charge 755.80
• Discount -22.88
• Total Charge 732.92
• SAVING 198.124

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Extra Discount

• Joint initiative between NYCC SDC
• Maximise uptake of SORTED Scheme
• Divert waste from landfill to help reduce LATS
• 10 per tonne discount
• 5 p/tonne shared between NYCC SDC (2.50 each)
• 5 p/tonne passed onto customer reduction in
  charges

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SORTED Scheme Introduced

• Roll out July 2005
• 80 Customers in main areas
• 29 Schools already recycling
• 9 months on January 2006
• 164 Customers across district
• 104 increase
• Approx 19 of customers
• Includes 20 new businesses
• 42 Schools
• 45 increase
• 84 of schools

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Average Monthly Recycling Tonnages
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The Future

• Customers still joining scheme
• Advertising/Direct Mail
• Mail out to businesses in the area
• Other recyclable materials
• Food Waste Restaurants, Cafes Pubs
• Glass Pubs Restaurants
• Garden Greens - Football Bowling Clubs, etc
• Greater savings
• Future increase in disposal charges landfill tax