April 2014 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 25
What are your future plans?
As ever, Biffa Municipal will continue to
offer value-for-money services for local
authorities, to continuously improve our
service standards, to increase recycling,
and to produce quality recyclables that
produce quality recyclates.
And what does Ashford Borough
Council think?
An Ashford Borough Council spokesman
answers the below questions.
How did you (Ashford) manage to triple
your recycling rates in a short space of time?
We have seen outstanding results,
thanks to the hard work of the council,
Biffa and, most of all, our residents.
Do you have any opinions on the MRF
Code of Practice?
Ashford as part of the Kent Resource
Partnership welcomes the introduction
of the MRF Regulations and supports
effective enforcement by the regulatory
authorities in all nations of the UK.
Many of the scheme characteris-
tics were called for by the KRP at the
time of the Defra consultation have
been adopted in the Regulations and
the accompanying Sampling Guidance.
This includes transparency of pub-
lished information about MRF qual-
ity of recyclates sent to reprocessors.
What are your future plans?
Ashford Borough Council will contin-
ue to work with its Mid-Kent partners
(Swale Borough Council /Maidstone
Borough Council and Kent County
Council) and Biffa to expand recycling
services in the area. A new food waste
service is currently being rolled out in
Swale as part of the new joint waste
contract.
A new 'Mid Kent Innovation Forum'
has also been established to identity
opportunities to expand recycling oppor-
tunities and increasing the recycling of
bulky waste is currently being explored.
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Ashford triples its recycling
rate in a period of time
