A KERBSIDE recycling scheme is now being rolled out to every home in York.

The service already covered about three-quarters of the city’s properties, but did not include terraced streets with narrow back lanes, flats and apartments because of the difficulties they posed for collection teams. But after a successful trial run by City of York Council in The Groves area of York last year, it will now be extended to cover these homes, with all residents receiving a collection for cardboard, paper, plastic bottles, metal cans, tins, empty aerosols, glass bottles and jars one week and rubbish which cannot be recycled being picked up the following week. About 45 per cent of the city’s waste is now recycled, compared with 17.8 per cent in 2004/05, which has also allowed the council to meet Government targets on reducing the amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites and avoid more than £5 million in fines.

Residents will be consulted on how the changes will work before they are implemented.