19-02-2025
Sheffield: Cost of having bulky items collected set to rise
People in Sheffield will have to pay more to have bulky waste collected from their homes from City Council said the increase was due to a rise in the cost of disposing of fire-retardant will now cost up to £8.06 more to have up to three items collected, bringing the charge to £37.66."It's probably cheaper than getting a man in a van to chuck it in the local woods," said David Barker, who sits on the council's waste and street scene policy committee.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, new Environment Agency guidance requires councils to dispose separately of bulky waste items containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs). These are found in fire-retardant materials in soft furnishings such as settees and chairs, which have to be separated from other big items and taken to a separate waste disposal new charges have been introduced to cover the annual £146,000 running costs for an additional vehicle and driver to take items containing POPs to specialist disposal a meeting on Friday the waste and street scene policy committee rejected options of adding a separate charge for POPs items only, or the council absorbing the changes will also see the £49.80 charge for having four to six items collected increase by £1.67 to £51.47, while having between seven and nine items collected will cost £70.72 instead of £70 and disposing of 10 to 12 items will cost £89.33 instead of £88.60, a rise of meeting heard 72% of people using the service had up to three items collected."You're kind of putting people off at the lower end and that is where the most collections are," councillor Peter Gilbert said of the questioned whether the changes would result in an increase in to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
