Fife is set to be the first UK council to begin trials that will see 2,000 residents' residual waste collected once every four weeks. The nine-month long trial, that are the result of the Council's efforts to meet the Government's target of recycling 70 percent of waste by 2025, will also see some residents' residual waste collected every three weeks and also two weeks in different parts of the area. "In a doorstep survey we found over 66 percent of green bins were full or overly full at collection time," Ken Gourlay, Fife Council's transportation and environment head of assets, said. "So, on one trial route we'll empty them every three weeks, and on the other route we'll empty them fortnightly. This is a pilot to get more information so that we can meet the needs of local people, develop a cleaner, greener Fife as well as reduce our waste disposal costs."
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