At its executive meeting this morning, Sedgemoor District Council approved the start of the Sort It Plus programme across the district.
The scheme will begin to be rolled out in November and be fully in place for 2010/11.
Sort It Plus see weekly collections of food waste, dry recyclables (glass, paper, cans, clothes, foils, shoes, car batteries), plastics and cardboard from wheeled bins by one vehicle.
If Taunton Deane Borough Council also go-ahead with Sort It Plus, the scheme will cost Sedgemoor £455,300 a year. However, the cost will drop to £389,300 if all the Somerset districts adopted Sort It Plus.
The capital costs of buying new wheeled bins will be £1,394,700, of which Somerset County Council will pay two-thirds with a grant, subject to approval. Sedgemoor will pay the remaining £297,800.
A downturn in prices for some materials like plastic bottles and cardboard in November led to Somerset Waste Partnership contractor, May Gurney, not willing to collect these items unless collection prices were revised.
However, demand of the materials has since satisfied the contractor and others and with no stockpiling of recyclables.
Sedgemoor's executive committee were recommended to approve rolling out Sort It Plus by the council's environment officer.
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