Household waste and recycling centre strategy 2023 - 2043

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Consultation has concluded

The council’s seven household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs) are very popular, with around one million visits every year. They take in 40,000-45,000 tonnes of waste, and 65.5% of this waste is recycled. Over a six-week period in spring 2023, nearly 400 residents and a small number of stakeholders shared their views on our draft HWRC strategy, and what we plan to do to manage our waste for the next 20 years.

You said: 

  • You support our approach to deliver a HWRC network set up for reuse, upcycling, innovation, and the circular economy.
  • You want us to coordinate services with the District and City councils to ensure a comprehensive, easy to access waste service.
  • You are keen to keep travel distances to HWRCs as low as possible to encourage people to use the sites. Some people asked us not to shut sites
  • You told us about the challenges of reaching HWRCs without a car, especially as people reduce personal car ownership
  • There is work to be done with manufacturers to reduce the amount of packaging produced, which will help residents create less waste.

We did: 

We used your feedback to inform our final strategy:

  • We will have reuse on sites as soon as we have the space to safely do so.
  • We will keep working with the other councils in Oxfordshire through the Oxfordshire Resources and Waste Partnership to deliver effective and (where possible) integrated waste services within the county.
  • We will make sure that the access policy for our HWRCs, and the council’s active travel policies, continue to enable residents to visit sites easily using a variety of different transport modes.
  • We listened to your concerns around travel distances to sites and acknowledged them in the strategy. Due to future uncertainties, we cannot commit to not shutting any sites, as we do not have security of tenure at some locations. However, the strategy does indicate the preference (depending on financial constraints) to secure or, where needed, relocate the sites in our network. Once this work is done, we can then look at expanding existing HWRCs to accommodate Oxfordshire’s growing population and this may mean that new HWRCs are created.

More information from the initial consultation can be found here.

The council’s seven household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs) are very popular, with around one million visits every year. They take in 40,000-45,000 tonnes of waste, and 65.5% of this waste is recycled. Over a six-week period in spring 2023, nearly 400 residents and a small number of stakeholders shared their views on our draft HWRC strategy, and what we plan to do to manage our waste for the next 20 years.

You said: 

  • You support our approach to deliver a HWRC network set up for reuse, upcycling, innovation, and the circular economy.
  • You want us to coordinate services with the District and City councils to ensure a comprehensive, easy to access waste service.
  • You are keen to keep travel distances to HWRCs as low as possible to encourage people to use the sites. Some people asked us not to shut sites
  • You told us about the challenges of reaching HWRCs without a car, especially as people reduce personal car ownership
  • There is work to be done with manufacturers to reduce the amount of packaging produced, which will help residents create less waste.

We did: 

We used your feedback to inform our final strategy:

  • We will have reuse on sites as soon as we have the space to safely do so.
  • We will keep working with the other councils in Oxfordshire through the Oxfordshire Resources and Waste Partnership to deliver effective and (where possible) integrated waste services within the county.
  • We will make sure that the access policy for our HWRCs, and the council’s active travel policies, continue to enable residents to visit sites easily using a variety of different transport modes.
  • We listened to your concerns around travel distances to sites and acknowledged them in the strategy. Due to future uncertainties, we cannot commit to not shutting any sites, as we do not have security of tenure at some locations. However, the strategy does indicate the preference (depending on financial constraints) to secure or, where needed, relocate the sites in our network. Once this work is done, we can then look at expanding existing HWRCs to accommodate Oxfordshire’s growing population and this may mean that new HWRCs are created.

More information from the initial consultation can be found here.