WILTSHIRE Council wants feedback from the public on its new rubbish and recycling plans.

The council has is drawing up a ten-year strategy for collecting and managing waste.

A consultation is now under way to get people’s views.

It runs until November 14 and can be found at consult.wiltshire.gov.uk/portal

The council spends more than £30m a year sorting out the county's waste, and each Wiltshire household sends an average of 566kg of rubbish to landfill every year.

Any income from recycling goes towards the cost of collecting waste.

Bridget Wayman, cabinet member for waste, said: “This strategy will help us determine how we run our waste services for the next decade.

"The questions in the consultation cover a broad range of ideas and suggestions as we want to be thorough and make sure we’ve had a careful look at all the options.

“Rightly so, people really care about these services and how they are run so we hope to get lots of really constructive feedback which will help us as we plan ahead.”

Following the consultation, the draft version of the strategy will be reported to environment select committee, cabinet, and full council for consideration and to be adopted.

Wiltshire Council recently awarded contracts to FCC Environment to run its household recycling centres, and to Hills Waste Solutions to provide waste and recycling collection services and to manage recyclable materials, garden waste and non-recyclable waste.