Your recycling could actually be going to landfill

Recycling is actually going to the landfill Credit: BPM

Birmingham city council has confirmed it is sending tonnes of recycling to landfill in a desperate bid to clean up rubbish on the streets.

This week has seen a massive clean up as the city became clogged with piles of black bags and over-filled wheelie bins.

On Monday, as the strike action entered its fourth week, the council began a ward-by-ward clean up.

But now it has been confirmed that recycling is being thrown in with the general waste and going to landfill, for which the Labour run council is taxed.

Opposition Conservative spokeswoman on the bins dispute Cllr Deirdre Alden said:

Birmingham Green Party chairman Rob Grant echoed her views, adding:

For many the big push is the first time recycling has been emptied in four weeks as the more smelly food and household waste and black bags has been the priority.

Tonnes of recycled bottles, plastic pots and paper are being sent to the landfill Credit: BPM

The city council confirmed that recycling was going into the main waste. A spokeswoman said:

Birmingham City Council’s recycling target is 36 per cent of all waste, but the amount recycled has been below 30 per cent in recent years.

It is currently drawing up a new waste strategy which will be introduced in 2019 as its Tyseley Incinerator contract comes to an end.