A pilot project in Port Isaac will trial new arrangements for waste disposal at holiday lets and self-catering properties.

Cornwall Council will be writing to the owners over the next few weeks to make them aware of their responsibility for disposing of their waste as part of the pilot being run in partnership with St Endellion Parish Council and waste contractor Cory Environmental.

In 2012 the Government issued revised waste legislation that included a number of changes affecting campsites, charity shops, hotels, B and Bs and waste produced from self-catering accommodation.  Waste from these producers is now classified as commercial waste. 

As a result any producer of commercial waste is required by law to make their own arrangements for waste collection and disposal rather than being disposed of by the Council’s household waste and kerbside recycling service.

Over the past few months the Council has been looking at ways of ensuring that the owners of these properties are disposing of their waste in accordance with the law and will be carrying out a pilot project in Port Isaac to test the process and assess the level of resources that will be needed to inform all properties in Cornwall of their duty. 

The results of the pilot will then be analysed by officers from the waste management team with a view to applying the process across the rest of Cornwall.