22 August 2008

Mixed plastics: Are they worth it?
Kerbside collections for mixed plastics are in their infancy. But new research on this waste stream could overcome some practical difficulties. Maxine Perella reports

Collecting mixed plastics at the kerbside "is possible to do without breaking the bank", according to a senior director at WRAP. Phillip Ward, director of local government services, was speaking at a dissemination event in London recently, where early findings from local authority mixed plastics collection trials were aired.

The study, which looked at a sample of LAs who were collecting mixed plastics from households, found wide variation in collection costs between councils. But it also found that those authorities collecting mixed plastics at the kerbside have below-average costs per household compared with their statistical neighbours.

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