Sandwell<\/a> Council in the Black Country has contacted residents to explain how the new system will work.<\/p>\nHomes are being provided with a new blue recycling bag, which officials say is weighted so won’t blow away.<\/p>\n
Residents “must” separate paper, cardboard and cartons from other recyclable items.<\/p>\n
The new bag will be for paper, newspapers, magazines, cardboard and cartons.<\/p>\n
While an existing recycling bin will be for glass bottles and jars, food tins and drink cans, plastic bottles, tubs and trays, empty aerosols and foil.<\/p>\n
Households are being urged to take note of the new rules so they get it right.<\/p>\n
Other councils around the country are set to introduce the new rules as part of Government efforts to boost recycling and make the process of sorting easier for local authorities.<\/p>\n
Councillor Keith Allcock, environment boss at Sandwell Council, said: \u201cSeparating paper, cardboard and cartons from your other recycling is a key part of the new Simpler Recycling regulations from Government.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo help with this, we\u2019re delivering the new blue recycling bag straight to your doorstep. Please keep a lookout for your bag \u2013 it will be with you by early September.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow is the time to start preparing and get into the habit of separating your paper, cardboard and cartons from your glass, tins and plastics.<\/p>\n
“These changes will help us recycle more and improve the quality of the materials we collect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Dalton, contract manager for waste collection firm Serco said: \u201cThe extra capacity that the blue bag will provide alongside the existing recycling (blue lid) bin, will help to drive up recycling rates within the borough and give the residents of Sandwell that little bit more space to recycle efficiently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to work in partnership with Sandwell Council and to support residents with these collection service changes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of households will have to follow strict new recycling rules under a shake-up of rubbish collections. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45248,1397,17977,45247,45244,45246,45245,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-90668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bin-collections","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-households","11":"tag-recyclable-items","12":"tag-recycling-bin","13":"tag-rubbish-collections","14":"tag-sandwell-council","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90668","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=90668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}