How will compulsory recycling be enforced?
We collect materials weekly from the Black Boxes so it is easy to monitor which households are not participating in the Recycling from Home scheme - we will not ordinarily be going through refuse bins to obtain evidence of people not recycling.
Our recycling assistants visit households who do not regularly recycle in order to further explain the scheme and encourage people to participate.
Residents who persistently and deliberately fail to recycle will receive warnings and formal notices. As a last resort the council may prosecute the most persistent offenders and the magistrates court can fine them up to a maximum of £1000. Only in those few cases where a formal notice needs to be served, and the householder is clearly still making no effort to recycle, will it then be necessary to go through their refuse bin to obtain evidence to support a prosecution.
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