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BBC News
11-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Middlesbrough food waste bins rollout on track, council says
A council's plans to introduce extra food waste collections are making "good progress", after a previous garden waste rollout was labelled a "calamity".Middlesbrough Council said the scheme to introduce free food waste bins in April 2026 was on track, with about 50,000 food bins set to be delivered to residents.A previous introduction of a new garden waste service in the town in spring 2024 saw issues arise over distribution council's executive member for environment and sustainability, Peter Gavigan, said a fleet of vehicles had also been obtained for the new service. Labour councillor Gavigan said in a report: "We have procured our fleet of vehicles, designed our collection rounds and are currently working with our procurement colleagues to procure a company to deliver approximately 50,000 caddies to domestic properties across the town."The food caddie bins are being introduced as part of the government's Simpler Recycling scheme, which aims to create great consistency in recycled items around the country. 'Worst recyclers' As well as food waste pick-ups beginning from April 2026, existing recycling collections will Council's director of environment and community services Geoff Field told the Local Democracy Reporting Service in February the town would no longer put their recycling in one bin, after stating it was one of the worst in the country for recycling. "Everyone will be getting a different receptacle sometime in 2026 to collect that paper and cardboard separately to the other recycling," he said. Gavigan's report added that the council was awaiting approval to go weekly with recycling collections in 2026 to ensure they conformed with the regulations introduced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).Middlesbrough's garden waste collection currently stood at 20,129 subscribers with a total bin count of 22,692 bins at residential properties, generating about £856,420, Gavigan said. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
21-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Middlesbrough Central Library: Hope facility will reopen early
Middlesbrough Central Library is set to reopen its doors sooner than planned following a "really exciting" facility was closed in December 2023 for a refurbishment and was not due to reopen until the councillors have been told it could now reopen in six weeks' time, in refurbishment work includes a new events space, an IT suite, and improvements to make it more family and child friendly. The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the council's director of environment and community services, Geoff Field, told an Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting that the work was a "really exciting development".He said the library "should be opened, hopefully, the beginning of May"."We're just waiting for the lift work - the whole focus of that is to develop a children's centre of excellence around literature." However, there were some concerns that its reopening would have an impact on small local libraries, which have hosted some of its stock during the councillor Jill Ewan, of Newport ward, said: "Newport Hub has got a very nice little library in it now, I'd be very disappointed if that was to go."Mayor Chris Cooke said: "Actually it might be a case that even when central library opens, based on what those figures look like, it might be the case that we start to roll out some of the other elements of the library to the sites that have benefited, in some way." Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- General
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Homes to receive food waste caddies next year
A town's residents are to get an extra bin and two food caddies as part of a changes to how its waste is managed. Homes in Middlesbrough will receive the bins in April 2026 as part of the government's Simpler Recycling scheme, which aims to create great consistency in recycled items around the country. Along with the food waste caddies, residents will also receive a bin for paper and card, which will be collected every two weeks. Middlesbrough Council's director of environment and community services Geoff Field said as a town, "we are very poor recyclers". "We are one of the worst in the country," he said. "We need to turn that around and we will try and make that as simple as possible and as seamless as possible." Field said the bins would lead to less contamination of recycling waste. One of the new food waste caddies has been designed to sit in the kitchen, while the second will be larger and stored outside, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. The council is in the process of purchasing special vehicles to pick up the food waste. The scheme was being paid for by central government, Field said. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Litter 'left to volunteers' after bins removed Litter bins to be scrapped over cost concerns Middlesbrough Council
BBC News
23-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Middlesbrough homes to receive food waste and cardboard bins
A town's residents are to get an extra bin and two food caddies as part of a changes to how its waste is in Middlesbrough will receive the bins in April 2026 as part of the government's Simpler Recycling scheme, which aims to create great consistency in recycled items around the with the food waste caddies, residents will also receive a bin for paper and card, which will be collected every two Council's director of environment and community services Geoff Field said as a town, "we are very poor recyclers". "We are one of the worst in the country," he said."We need to turn that around and we will try and make that as simple as possible and as seamless as possible."Field said the bins would lead to less contamination of recycling waste. One of the new food waste caddies has been designed to sit in the kitchen, while the second will be larger and stored outside, according to the Local Democracy Reporting council is in the process of purchasing special vehicles to pick up the food scheme was being paid for by central government, Field said. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
