Charities are being offered the opportunity to boost their funds and help the environment by forging recycling partnerships with the Vale of Glamorgan Council.
Under a new scheme agreed by the council cabinet, charities contributing recyclable waste being removed from the domestic waste stream, will be paid £10 per tonne for their material.
A number of controls will ensure against error and fraud, and these will include providing proof that the material is from the household waste stream within the Vale boundaries.
The projected payment will reflect the value of the material in recycling markets and the savings which will be made by the council in not having to collect and dispose of the material.
Two charities, Scope, the organisation supporting those with disabilities whose focus is people with cerebal palsy, and Clothes Aid, will be the first recipients in the Vale. Their materials include paper, glass, cans and textiles.
Schools, colleges of third party commercial recycling organisations, from whom waste is currently collected by the council, would not be eligible.
Cabinet member for visible and building services Cllr Geoff Cox said: “It is important that the council continues to encourage recycling across the community and that the council benefits from the additional tonnages to assist with meeting Welsh Assembly Government recycling targets.”
The Vale Council’s current recycling and composting rate is just over 41 per cent, and Assembly targets are 40 per cent (by 2010), 52 per cent (2012-13) and 70 per cent (2024-25). Every 100 tones of recycling collected at a cost of £1,000 represents a 0.43 per cent contribution towards the targets.
