Swansea Council has confirmed that residents living in flats in Swansea should all be able to utilise kerbside kitchen waste collection services when major changes are introduced to the city’s waste collections.
Currently, the majority of those living in council-run or private residential flats do not have access to the kitchen waste recycling service.
But plans recently announced by the Council to introduce segregated waste collections means that all households will be included on the weekly kitchen waste collection scheme before the wider plans are introduced in early autumn.
To help deal with the particular issues that collections from flats presents, the Council is launching a pilot scheme, introducing the kitchen waste scheme to a number of flat complexes in the city.
Flats included in the pilot scheme are at Harford Court and Hanover Court in Sketty and Drovers Court in Gowerton.
John Hague, Cabinet Member for the Environment in Swansea Council, said, “We want every resident in Swansea to have access to all the kerbside recycling services on offer.
“Residential flats are not straightforward when it comes to kerbside collections.
“The pilot schemes will help us better understand the practical issues the Council will face collecting from flats and will give us the information we need to help deliver these services to everyone.”
The Council recently announced that from September this year, changes will be made to how refuse and recycling is collected from homes in Swansea. This is mainly to persuade more people to recycle their household waste. It will also involve the introduction of the kerbside collection of plastics in the late spring.
On a rolling two-week rota it will mean on one week, household rubbish in black bags, plastics in pink bags and kitchen waste will be collected and on the next week, kitchen waste and other recyclables like glass, cans, paper, cardboard and green waste will be collected.
These changes will affect residents living in the west of Swansea from September. And from April 2011 the changes will also include residents in the east.
