Every home in England may be given choice of four different bins in 2025
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Households are set to have four different bins early next year. Labour has unveiled new plans to replace what it calls a "muddled and confusing" system currently in place. The 'Simpler Recycling in England' policy change will see the mix of bags, bins, or stackable boxes to become the standard setup for most homes and workplaces.
The document assures: "This is the government's maximum default requirement and is not expected to increase in the future. However, councils and other waste collectors will still have the flexibility to make the best choices to suit local need.". The Tories had suggested households might have to use up to seven different waste containers, plans blasted by Sir Keir Starmer's party. Labour had said: "For too long, households in England have been presented with a muddled and confusing patchwork of approaches to bin collections.".
The changes are also designed to help boost the UK's recycling efforts, and put an end to the lottery of collection rules that vary from one council area to another. Recycling rates are stagnant, hovering around 44% of homes since 2015. Each household will, from March next year, have a weekly collection of "bad-smelling food waste" under Labour's proposals. According to the new government blueprint, a variety of other waste management areas are due for an overhaul:.
Some 95 English local councils already play ball with co-collection for these recyclables. A leaked document discloses: "Simpler Recycling will enable consistent, more streamlined collections from all households, businesses and relevant non-domestic premises (such as schools and hospitals). Local authorities and other waste collectors will be able to co-collect some waste streams by default meaning that they will no longer need to collect seven separate streams.".
