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Mobile Outdoor Digital Screens (MODS) – Helping You Make the Switch to Simpler Recycling
Displayed on the side of your (electronic or diesel-powered) refuse truck and easily operated with our user-friendly software, Fiveways’ patented, lightweight, 100% recyclable aluminium MODS are successfully utilised by many local authorities to inform people of changes to their refuse collections.
To that end, Fiveways' MODS are the ideal way for local authorities to deliver clear and concise guidance on the forthcoming Simpler Recycling legislation to their residents, businesses, and organisations.
What is Simpler Recycling?
In England there’s admittedly more confusion over what can be recycled – and when – than there is confusion about the country’s unpredictable weather. But the good news is that (whilst we may never know whether or not to bring an umbrella into work) the forthcoming Simpler Recycling legislation will hopefully signal the end of people wondering, for example, “Is this the week for paper or plastics?”
Simpler Recycling is new legislation that’s coming into effect at the end of March 2025 for businesses* and non-domestic properties (including schools, hospitals, and places of worship) – and the end of March 2026 for households.
Fiveways’ local authority customers who manage waste contracts will already be gearing up for Simpler Recycling – the implementation of which is being financially supported by the government. It hopes that Simpler Recycling will boost recycling rates and “put an end to the confusion over what can and can’t be recycled in different parts of the country.”
Currently, each local authority recycles different materials to one another. But Simpler Recycling will see the introduction of universal “dry recycling” collections and weekly food waste collections.
Councils will also be actively encouraged to make black bin waste collection more frequent (at least fortnightly) to prevent waste from building up outside homes.
Weekly food waste collections
Simpler Recycling will see the introduction of weekly “universal” food waste collections. This includes:
- all food intended for human or household pet consumption and
- biodegradable material resulting from the processing or preparation of food, including inedible food parts such as bones, eggshells, fruit and vegetable skins, tea bags and coffee grounds.
The food waste will go for treatment at anaerobic digestion (AD) plants – which process it into biogas for fuel and digestate that is used as a fertiliser for the agriculture sector.
As part of the legislation, local authorities will also be allowed to co-collect food and garden waste should they want to. They’ll still be able to charge for the collection of garden waste.
Dry recycling – paper, card, plastic, and glass – in one bin
No, it’s not “paper, scissors, stones” likes the well-known children’s game (!) but rather “paper, card, plastic, glass.” Simpler Recycling will see each of these types of “dry” recyclables collected together in one multipurpose recycling bin.
Specifically, dry recyclables include:
- Glass (bottles and jars),
- metal (steel and aluminium tins, cans, jars and bottle lids, and aerosols),
- aluminium foil trays
- plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, including amorphous, recycled PET), polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE)
- pots, tubs, trays made of PET (including amorphous, recycled and crystalline PET), PP (including expanded PP) and polyethylene (PE)
- paper and card – with the exception of paper and card that contains glitter or foil (so not all wrapping paper will be recyclable), paper that’s laminated, stickers and sticky paper, padded lined envelopes, books, and wallpaper.
- PE and PP plastic tubes larger than 50mm x 50mm
- cartons for food, drink, and other liquids, including aseptic and chilled cartons
Plastic films packaging and plastic bags made of mono-polyethylene (mono-PE), mono-polypropylene (mono-PP) and mixed polyolefins PE and PP, including those metallised through vacuum or vapour deposition, are due to be included in Dry Recycling from the end of March 2027.
Given the MODS’ proven popularity, they’re arguably the perfect means by which to inform residents of the forthcoming Simpler Recycling legislation. From listing which items can go into the Dry Recycling collection to alerting residents, businesses and organisations to the dates that Simpler Recycling comes into effect, Fiveways’ MODS will help get the message out there.
Interested? For more information on our MODS contact ledscreens@fivewayshire.co.uk
*Micro-firms (any producer of non-household municipal waste with fewer than 10 FTE employees) will have extra time to bring in the new requirements for dry recyclable waste streams (excluding film) and food waste – they must comply by 31 March 2027.