Waste and recycling

Published: 20 May, 2010

• IN response to your article (Rubbish collection staff ‘facing chaos due to cuts’, May 13) the council would like to clarify a number of points that were not made clear.
The council are making changes to residents’ rubbish collections in order to make collections more efficient and make Camden an environmentally sustainable place to live.
We’ve made changes to collection days in approximately 170 streets, which is around 8 per cent of the borough. Letters were sent to residents to explain these changes.

In addition, we are introducing a weekly recycling service for all paper, card, glass bottles and jars, food and drinks cartons, tins, cans and mixed household plastic packaging.
The new service will give residents the opportunity to help their borough become greener by recycling even more of their waste and reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfill.

In Camden a third of the rubbish we throw away is food waste and the new service will ensure that the food and garden waste will be turned into compost rather than ending up in landfill sites. In Camden the current rate of recycling is 28.27 per cent. The new service means the council will be moving closer towards the recycling rate target of 45 per cent by 2015.
SAM MONCK
Acting Assistant Director, Public Realm & Sustainability