{"id":163912,"date":"2025-09-27T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163912\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:56:11","slug":"east-suffolk-councillor-calls-for-halt-to-extra-bin-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163912\/","title":{"rendered":"East Suffolk councillor calls for halt to extra bin plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  East Suffolk Council has already authorised the introduction of a new 240 litre recycling bin to homes in the district at a cost of \u00a33.5 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But councillor Robert Cawley, who represents Rushmere St Andrew ward, has called for the roll-out to be halted and for the council to visit Solihull in the West Midlands, where he said an automated recycling plant had been successful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/24952102.roll-new-east-suffolk-bin-will-cost-3-5-million\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Roll out of new east Suffolk bin will cost \u00a33.5 million<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In particular, he highlighted how the plant had successfully resolved issues with contamination and improved the selling of end waste products.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At a council meeting on Wednesday (September 25), he said: &#8220;I appreciate how far we have progressed, however, moving to having five bins per household for me seems like a costly step backwards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Can this administration halt its current plans and investigate how we can lead the way in east Suffolk in fully automated recycling?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;By successfully replicating Solihull, we could save taxpayers money and make additional financial gains by selling our recycled waste products.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Responding to Mr Cawley, councillor Sally Noble, cabinet member for the environment, said she would discuss the possibility of visiting Solihull with officers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25076204.ipswich-households-five-waste-recycling-bins\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Ipswich households could have five waste and recycling bins<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But she warned sites would need to be identified and planning applications submitted, along with tendering, procurement and structuring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;With regard to developing our own facilities, this would take several years to bring online,&#8221; she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added the extra bin was being provided to encourage residents to recycle more, with figures showing that recycling rates in the district were at 40%, with the council having set a target of achieving 60% recycling by 2030.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Additionally, the council worked with waste management firm Biffa to deliver economies of scale, with the authority outperforming national benchmarks for the resale of recycled commodities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new green wheeled bin is being rolled out in east Suffolk and will supplement an existing blue lidded bin as part of a &#8220;Twin-Stream&#8221; dry recycling collection system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The bins will be supplied to more than 100,000 homes in the district.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Currently, recyclables such as plastics, card and paper are collected in the one bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Suffolk Council has already authorised the introduction of a new 240 litre recycling bin to homes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-163912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}