Wigan Council's Department of Environmental Services is due to begin a trial kerbside collection of glass, cans and plastic bottles for recycling in February 2008.
The scheme involves a trial across 13,000 properties in the borough, based on current refuse collection rounds. Not all wards are to be included at this stage.
Each property will receive a bin in which to store their glass, cans and plastic bottles. Collections will take place every two weeks, on the same day as refuse collection, directly from the property (doorstep collection).
Each household that is included is to be notified by leaflet at the end of January or early February. After this they will then receive a brown bin and a calendar of collection dates. Collections are scheduled to begin in the week commencing 18th February 2008.
Householders can place in their bin: Any glass, empty food and drink cans/tins, aerosols, plastic bottles, yoghurt pots and margarine tubs.
The scheme is being introduced for two main reasons:
• Residents tell Wigan Council they want the service
• European and Government legislation means we all must reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and increase recycling or waste management costs will increase
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1 comment:
Another empty promise from WiganMBC we got a leaflet 12 months ago saying we will be having the new green bins for garden waste within the next 2 weeks, a year down the line we are still waiting. No wonder WiganMBC has the poorest recycling figures in the Northwest.
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