A physical survey to find out what our waste and recycling is made up of will be carried out on the Island starting this month. The waste will be sent in a collection vehicle for sampling at a location on the Island. No personal data or information will be identified neither will the sampled bins be identified with individual properties. Residents of the roads selected to take part will be receiving their letters regarding the survey next week. If they do not wish to be involved, they can let the waste service team know. Week one starts 19th August 2024 and week 2 will start from 9th September 2024. The waste composition survey involves collecting samples of general waste, recycling and food waste and sorting them into various types and quantities of materials. This will give the council a better understanding of what is in our waste. This will help the council to improve waste and recycling information and campaigns for residents in the future. It will also help better manage waste generated on the Island. The Island recycled 48% of household waste in 2022/23. Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox, Cabinet lead for waste services, said:
“Thank you in advance to all the residents of the roads which have been selected for this survey. During this week, they may see a different van collecting the waste or recycling from their property for this study. “This study isn’t targeting specific people. We are reassuring residents taking part that all information collected will remain anonymous. Any waste surveyed will not be linked to any properties.”
Natasha Dix, service director for waste, environment and planning, said:
“The survey will give us an idea of how people sort their waste, and, on average, what is generated. This means that if there are certain items that appear in waste that could be recycled, such as plastic or food waste, it’ll flag up the areas we need to focus on with our education campaigns. “The last time the study was carried out in 2019/20, we found that 23 per cent of general household waste in black bins and reusable sacks was food waste. This could have been recycled in your food waste container at the kerbside – where it is sent for recycling into compost.”
The survey will be carried out in several areas across the Island to make up a representative sample of 100 households. The first stage will be carried out during August 2024, when waste quantities are expected to be higher, due to the tourist season. The second stage will be carried out in September 2024, when waste quantities are expected to be lower. The waste will be collected as normal on the usual scheduled day of the week, in the streets involved in the study. Residents do not need to do anything different to the normal arrangement for putting out waste and recycling for collection – i.e. placing receptacles out by 07:00 on the day of collection. This survey will be carried out by Integrated Skills on behalf of the council, working in partnership with its waste service provider. Integrated Skills specialise in waste services and studies and have has conducted many similar surveys for other local authorities across the UK. Collected waste will be kept secured throughout the analysis and once completed, the council’s waste service provider will dispose of the collected waste or recycling in the normal way.
Well I’m afraid I can’t sort my recycling out properly because the bin men keep smashing up the small black bin ! ..
Think yourself lucky we have had 4 little black containers put in the crusher with rubbish from green bins next time will not ask for replacement will put all the paper and cardboard in with recyclable rubbish
Me too. I gave up that game years ago after they kept
breaking mine.
It is all a farce. I have friends who know that real RECYCLING does
not happen on the island.
Bit like traffic Law on the Island, it is rare.
Never had that problem, infact they gave me a new one when mine eventually broke.
I’m on my fourth black paper insert because they keep failing to return mine.
I’m afraid I’ve given up with all that.. I just pile it all in the green bin… if they don’t have the decently to look after my equipment… then let them sort it out..
“This study isn’t targeting specific people. We are reassuring residents taking part that all information collected will remain anonymous. Any waste surveyed will not be linked to any properties.”
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the fact that they select specific roads, means specific addresses – in other words – specific people.
this is all a smoke screen to snoop on what people are putting in their bins and obviously, those taking part will be an absolute model of recycling and cooperation -once it is over- they will go back to dumping everything in it.
don’t leave anything with your name and address on it, in the bin, otherwise they will make a note of your address, if they find anything that shouldn’t be there and can target you later on for fines
All they need to do is open the bin and have a look. They’ll see exactly what we put in it then.
More BS waste of time…. Some people actually get paid for doing this!! Unbelievable
Dump rubbish in the bins , I like dumping my grass cuttings on the streets and I just dump it anywhere who cares about recycling mix it all up love it
Come on IOWC, we are all not as stupid as you are. How about jumping into the black bin yourselves and the there will be no chance of recycling you.
This is bad news!! I must stop putting asbestos in my bin while they conduct this
What a waste of tax payers money.
“ we found that 23 per cent of general household waste in black bins and reusable sacks was food waste. This could have been recycled in your food waste container at the kerbside – where it is sent for recycling into compost.”
I can categorically state that my food waste WITHOUT FAIL is put in the back of the bin lorry TOGETHER WITH all my other waste.
Who’s kidding who?
As I have stated before, to the derision of the blind councils can track our bins with chips placed in the moulded area under the handle.
DO NOT leave anything with an address or means of identity to yourselves in the bin.
Check weekly under the handles with a screwdriver!:)
This is now a surveillance state with an authoritarian government. You have been warned.
“chips placed in the moulded area under the handle”
OMG,.. you are f’ing deluded !
Research online you twat.
Are they talking to each other and going, yep, his bin hasn’t moved for 13 days, hang on! It’s moved about 10 yards, must be bin day! Got him!
“Research online” presumably means go read the ramblings of some insane conspiracy nutter online. Your bin moves little and it has no secrets to share.
really brian – that is why the police will discreetly seize the bins of people suspected of crimes and go through them – looking for evidence to support their suspicions – people are careless and make mistakes by throwing things in the bin, that can link them to crime
the bin tells far more about you than you realise.
A chip in the handle would provide no useful information. However, a forensic examination of the contents of islander’s bin would expose his many and varied criminal activities once they have waded through the used incontinence pads and empty vodka bottles.
Tin foil…
it solves the problems..
make a tin foil skirt and hat, wear with pride, all will be well…
Another waste of time and money
Your the waste of time sad old man
I expect they will count vegetable and fruit peelings, tea bags and egg shells as food waste and then lecture us on how much ‘food’ we throw away.
Big brother is watching.
All this seems to me to have very little to do with saving the planet and more like a precursor to 3 week collections.
When I first came to the island from London in the 90s, I was really surprised at how clean and tidy it was with very little rubbish on the streets. Now? So what has changed? The ‘recycling’ situation is what. We have traded our clean streets for rubbish strewn all over the place and eyesores of plastic bins everywhere.
Who and what has been gained?
On paper, the dump, sorry recycling centre, has reduced staffing levels and we have some brand new dust carts…but?
Who is fooling who and yes all those bins do have a recess for a microchip.
The contents of the average islander’s bin mainly include vapes, benefits updates, unused condoms, fag packets, fake nails, shoes with laces (too challenging), booze bottles, pizza boxes and more fast food packaging.
So glad to hear I’m not average
Wow..where do you live ? …Westminster ? ….
brian is an average islander and as such, assumes that everyone elses bin is the same as his
Next step, fines for putting a bit of cardboard in the black bin by accident.
I remember saying, years ago, that it wouldn’t be long before we were fined for putting the wrong rubbish in the wrong bin. I’m sure this is the start of that happening.
Oh well time they find out I don’t sort anything, I have one bin in my kitchen and it all goes in the bin of the week. The council want to me to sort it they can reduce my council tax!!! If I am lucky to be on the list I shall have some fun making sure I fill my bin with the strangest things to give them a good old laugh as they finger through my rubbish.
Unfortunately shows just how thick and liers our council are, they tell us how well we are recycling,yet actually don’t know so have to physically check. Like getting a bottle of milk and then having it analysed to see how much of it is milk ?. I have a large tree so will have to get it checked to see if really made of wood. Council just waste our Council tax. Rubbish is rubbish. I’ll carry on chucking car parts, carpet and garden rubbish in black bags in grey bin thanks, I pay enough council tax…
Why pay for a brown bin when you can dump it anywhere like me saves money
Well I can tell you what’s in my recycled waste – all the cardboard I put out in a separate bin. They just empty it into the green bin and toss it all into the lorry. So much for recycling..If I put the small black bin into the green bin they just toss the whole lot into the lorry, black bin included. Then I have to order a replacement.