residents on how to use the three-bin system.

Then there are those who understand it but do not agree.

At the council's first meeting of 2010 this week there was heated debate, with some councillors saying that the community had been ``let down'', especially through a lack of communication.

Mayor Kevin Crameri said letters had been sent out to households but Cr Marko Malkoc said: ``Like anything

new, this has its problems. There need to be refinements.''

Next Monday, February 8, councillors will discuss all complaints in a workshop in an attempt to come up

with better solutions.

In the meantime, the Star asked a council spokeswoman last week what local people can do to use the bins better, since the State Government has said all councils have to increase recycling to 66 per cent by 2014.

If a council doesn't do this, ratepayers will have to pay more through the domestic waste charge.

Residual waste costs $160 a tonne to send to landfill and its costs will increase.

Clean organic waste will cost about $90 a tonne to process.

The three-bin system reduces the quantity of waste going to landfill and enables organic waste to be turned

into high-quality compost.

ntsDPenrith Council has an organic depot site at Kemps Creek.

For the council to be able to use processed organic waste to fertilise parklands and sporting fields, the compost must be A-grade.

The compost at the moment is B-grade because waste is going in the

wrong bins.

After the three-bin system is refined and working well, the compost will go A-grade.