They emphasise food waste will be gathered once weekly, recyclables fortnightly and "residual" waste every three weeks. South Gloucestershire Council revealed that half its households failed to fill their refuse bin every fortnight and the modifications would "help save money, cut carbon emissions from collections and encourage residents to recycle more". Paul Hart, cabinet member with responsibility for environmental services at Lancaster City Council, explained that weekly food waste collections would leave "more capacity in grey bins to accommodate three-weekly waste collections". A Defra spokeswoman declared: "This Government will end the postcode lottery of bin collections. From March next year, every household in England will receive weekly food waste collections and will have the same materials collected for recycling, ending the throw away society and cleaning up our streets for good."