EIR Request - Recycling
Request 101002239708
1. The percentage of wastage recycled by your council (i.e. recycling rate), broken down by year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
2. Do you do enforce any of the following to encourage correct recycling or penalise incorrect recycling in your local authority area:
a. Issue fines to households
b. Issue warnings to households
c. Employ officers to monitor recycling bins
d. Refuse to collect waste that is incorrectly recycled or contaminated
3. If your council does issue fines to households, please can you provide the number of fines issued, broken down by year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
4. If your council does issue fines to households, please can you provide the amount of money collected in fines issued, broken down by year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
If limited by time, please prioritise in order of Q1, Q2, Q3 etc.
Response 21-08-2019
1.The percentage of wastage recycled by your council (i.e. recycling rate), broken down by year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
2016 – 59.1% 2017 – 57.8% 2018 – 57.4% 2019 – Not available until May 2020
2.Do you do enforce any of the following to encourage correct recycling or penalise incorrect recycling in your local authority area:
a.Issue fines to households
We are not able to issue fines to householders not recycling correctly or penalise incorrect recycling
b.Issue warnings to households
If householders regularly contaminate their recycling bins a Team Leader may visit to discuss recycling with the householder
c.Employ officers to monitor recycling bins
Officers are not directly employed to monitor recycling bins however this forms part of the Team Leader role
d.Refuse to collect waste that is incorrectly recycled or contaminated
Moray Council do not service recycling bins which are contaminated with incorrect materials in the bins.
3.If your council does issue fines to households, please can you provide the number of fines issued, broken down by year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
We do not issue fines
4.If your council does issue fines to households, please can you provide the amount of money collected in fines issued, broken down by year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
We do not issue fines