Free caddy liners for food and garden waste to stop by the end of the week in Greater Manchester borough
manchestereveningnews.co.ukChiefs are to stop providing Tameside residents with free caddy liners for green waste within days. Tameside council has provided compostable caddy liners for free since launching food waste recycling in the borough to encourage households to stop putting leftovers in with their normal rubbish collections.
However the authority says there is both a financial and environmental cost of providing these bags, and it is ‘not a net-zero waste practice’.
These type of bags are now an ‘unaffordable luxury in the current financial climate’, leaders say. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. On Wednesday the executive cabinet agreed to cease providing caddy liners from the end of June, which will save the council £169k.
Scrapping that service was included in the budget plans for this financial year as part of more than £15m in agreed cuts and savings.
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