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About Waste Disposal and Recycling in Leicester

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A few times a week homeowners put out their rubbish and recyclables and the next day they retrieve the empty bins. Most folks have been doing this for so many years that they don’t even stop to consider what happens to all of this waste and recycling. In this brief article we are going to take a look at what happens when the content of your bin leaves your home.

According to the latest numbers, the UK produces more than 30 million tonnes of waste a year. waste disposal and recycling Leicester is handled by the Local Authority. Most of the waste and recycling that they collect is residential waste, i.e., from your doorstep, while the rest is from municipal containers in the parks and towns.

As you may know, the cost of all waste collection and disposal is covered by taxation. Though commercial businesses are often expected to pay for their own waste, often by hiring service companies in the private sector.

While most waste collections occur on a weekly or even bi-weekly basis, recycling is often only collected twice a month, or every fortnight. And unlike waste collection, city officials are constantly trying to set new goals and targets to increase recycling from year to year.

After it is collected, all waste is taken either to landfills or incineration plants. Either way, pollution is an unavoidable externality of both methods. Typically, a landfill is the preferred way to dispose of waste in the UK since it is less expensive than incineration and reportedly creates less pollution.

Recycling, on the other hand, is all taken to a plant where cans, containers and bottles are remade.