A York political leader says new recycling wheelie bins introduced in York should be shared with neighbours to limit street clutter.
Leader of the York Green Party Andy D’Agorne welcomes City of York Council’s recycling review and plan to consult residents on proposals for recycling bins to replace boxes as much as possible.
Proposals would see recycling boxes replaced by two wheelie bins in most of the city.
His main concern is the limited outside storage space for houses with yards or smaller gardens.
He is asking the Labour-run council to find the best solution for these streets.
“Obviously people in terraced houses have limited space, and it may be depend on their personal circumstances,” he told YorkMix.
“They may have more of one type of recycling than another and perhaps could team up with a neighbour so one has a paper and card bin and the other household has glass, plastics and tins.
“Then they’d only have one extra wheelie bin each between them, but still enough capacity, if that was enough for it for a month to recycle what they wanted.”
Bringing in the new bins would end the mess caused by recycling boxes being blown over on windy collection days, the council says.
Under the plans, some homes would have four different wheelie bins – a black bin for landfill waste, a bin for card and paper, another for all other recyclables, and a green bin if they are subscribed to the garden waste service.
The black bin would still be collected fortnightly. The other bins would be collected in turn every other week.
Residents in North Yorkshire already have four wheelie bins.
Not every household would be eligible for wheelie bins. Between 7,000 and 8,000 households will be excluded from the process. These include the 2,568 who have their recycling collected by St Nicks.
