authority is looking to increase the amount of reusable green waste that is being recycled in the region by issuing fines to residents that contaminate loads.
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council says that although the amount of green waste being put in recycling bins is high, many were misusing the bins by putting other refuse in, the Leicester Mercury reports.
When other materials are mixed up with green waste recycling, the whole load is turned away and simply has to be sent for landfill.
In a bid to get tough with residents, councillor Bill Crooks, executive member for waste collection, said that the council will now be issuing fines of £110 and removing the bins of those people who contaminate loads on three occasions.
"It is a waste of the residents' time and energy recycling it in the first place if it is going to landfill, and then it costs us a lot of money as well," Lisa Kirby, head of the council's team of neighbourhood wardens, told the publication.
Meanwhile, Telford council recently announced that it is on-track to achieve ambitious targets of recycling 50 per cent of its waste material in the next three years.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the waste recycling industry includes:
Conveyors – screw conveyors – chain conveyors – belt conveyors
