Dear Emma Kilmurray

Thank you for your Freedom of Information/Environmental Information
Regulation request which was received by Vale of White Horse District
Council on 6 September 2023.

Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been
received and forwarded to the relevant department and a response will be
sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the information not being
exempt.

The deadline for this will be 4 October 2023 and our reference number for
this request is: Vale 23/501

I trust that this email is sufficient to assure you that your request is
being dealt with. However, should you have any queries in the meantime,
please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team at [1][Vale of White Horse
District Council request email]

Kind regards

Information Governance Team

Legal and Democratic Services

Vale of White Horse District Council

[2]www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk 

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Dear Emma Kilmurray,

Thank you for your requests for information under the Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), which were received by both South
Oxfordshire District Council (logged under 23/605 SOUTH) and Vale of White
Horse District Council (logged under 23/501 VALE).  Please note that the
two councils operate as a shared service hence this joint response.

Under Part 2 Regulation 5 of the Environmental Information Regulations
2004, you are entitled to information which is in the authority’s
possession or is held by another person on behalf of the authority unless
any exceptions apply (Part 3 Regulation 12). I have considered your
request and can confirm we do hold some of the information asked and I do
not believe any of the statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please
find below the information you requested (where available):

 1. Do you accept mattresses at the majority/all your HWRCs? Please answer
yes or no.

 2. If yes, what is the charge in £ per mattress?

 3. How are most of the mattress materials and components disposed of from
HWRCs?

Please select one option:

a) Sent for recycling (i.e., separated into component parts)

b) Sent for landfill

c) Sent for incineration for energy recovery

Questions 1 -3 : The HWRC’s in our districts are owned and run by
Oxfordshire County Council so we do not have this information.

 4. Do you offer a collection service for mattresses? Please answer yes or
no. Yes, mattresses are included as items eligible for our bulky waste
collection service.

 5. If yes, what is the charge in £ per mattress? The bulky waste
collection service is £49.50 for up to three items and then £9.50 per
additional item (Six items maximum per collection booking)

 6. If yes, how are most of the mattress materials and components disposed
of from collections? Please select one option:

a) Sent for recycling (i.e., separated into component parts)

b) Sent for landfill

c) Sent for incineration for energy recovery

 7. Does your authority have plans to revise how mattresses are disposed
of in the next 12 months? Please answer yes or no.
 8. If yes, how do you plan to dispose of mattresses in future?

Questions 6 – 8: We do not hold this information as we are a Waste
Collection Authority, the responsibility for the disposal of mattresses
falls with our Waste Disposal Authority, Oxfordshire County Council.

9. Do you signpost households to private sector mattress recycling
providers in your region? Please answer yes or no. No

10. If yes, please list providers.

11. Where possible, please provide a URL(s) for any pages on your council
website which provide information to residents about mattress disposal.

[1]www.southoxon.gov.uk/bulkywaste

[2]www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/bulkywaste

Please treat this as the councils’ formal response.  If you are not
satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your request, under
Regulation 11, you may make a request for an internal review within 40
working days of receiving this response by emailing [3][email address] and
[4][Vale of White Horse District Council request email].  If you remain
dissatisfied after following that procedure, you have the right to
complain to the Information Commissioner. You can contact the Commissioner
at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (telephone
number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information at
[5]www.ico.org.uk.

Kind regards

Rebecca Jupp

Senior Technical Support Officer

Environmental Services - Housing and Environment

South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils

T: 01235 422146

I work flexibly.  It fits with my personal work pattern to email you at
this time, but I do not expect you to read this email or reply to it
outside of your own working hours. 

To find out more about how the council holds, uses and stores your
personal data, please click on the appropriate council’s link
[6]www.southoxon.gov.uk or [7]www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk  

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