Your Views Count – Have Your Say on Bin Collections

Cambridge City Council is carrying out a survey asking residents for their views about bin collections.
The survey is part of a major project to review the routes that bin lorries take around the city. Using specialist software to re-map the routes taking traffic and other factors into account, the council aims to reduce the costs and carbon footprint of bin collections in the city.

Re-mapping the bin lorry routes means that some residents might see a change to their bin day in 2012.

Executive Councillor for Environment and Waste Services, Cllr Jean Swanson said, “The software will tell us where we could make savings, but we want to take residents’ views into account too. As well as finding out what people think about some of the options that the software may present, we are also asking what people think about things like incentives for recycling, and what services they would like to see.

I’d like to encourage as many Cambridge residents as possible to visit our website and take the survey.”

Residents can visit www.cambridge.gov.uk/binsurvey until November 5th to complete the survey.

A telephone survey of a representative sample of 1000 residents will also be conducted this week.