A SCHEME to bring a third wheelie bin to Eastleigh borough residents’ driveways has moved a step closer.
Eastleigh Borough Council’s ‘buy it and try it’ garden waste scheme, which allows customers to take on the service then opt out after six weeks and get their money back, has been backed by Cabinet members.
It hopes the move will reduce collection and disposal costs, increase income and improve recycling rates.
Under the new system, residents would replace their weekly-collected 90-litre sacks with a fortnightly-collected 240-litre bin, at an unchanged cost of £30 for this year.
The council is set to spend £276,000 on 13,500 bins and a further £20,000 to upgrade the IT system, but hopes to recoup this in eight years.
The new garden scheme will launch in April 2014.