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Recycling containers on their way to trial areas in Sedgemoor
Improved recycling is about to hit parts of Sedgemoor this month. Residents in trial areas will be able to recycle a wide range of materials including food waste, plastic bottles and cardboard.
New collection containers and service leaflets are on their way from the Somerset Waste Partnership to over 2,600 households in Lympsham & East Brent, part of Burnham-on-Sea, Axbridge and Catcott, Cossington & Edington in preparation for trials of SORT IT PLUS collections that will include food waste, plastic bottles and cardboard recycling.
In the first weeks of May, households on the 4 trial rounds in Sedgemoor will receive: -
• A kitchen caddy and external bin for food waste
• a wheeled refuse bin (for suitable households)
• a new green box for cardboard and plastic bottles.
These go along with the green boxes already provided which enable all households to recycle paper, glass, food and drinks cans, foil, clothes, shoes and car batteries. The new green box for cardboard and plastic bottles in trial areas will stack neatly on the old one.
The first SORT IT PLUS trial collections in Sedgemoor will start on 21st May.
“SORT IT PLUS will build on the success of current recycling schemes in Somerset. It’s important local residents covered by the trials understand the new system, so all have already received a notification pack and we have held very popular roadshows in each area,” explained Councillor Nigel Woollcombe-Adams, Chair of the Somerset Waste Partnership.
Councillor Stuart Kingham, Sedgemoor District Council’s Portfolio Holder for Environmental Health & Clean Surroundings, added “I am pleased good progress is being made and local people are responding so positively to the introduction of the new trials. For those served, the new collections will allow more than twice as much waste to be recycled and the amount of refuse sent to landfill to be halved.”
The SORT IT PLUS trials will run from May until March 2009 and involve:
• Weekly collections of food waste;
• Continued recycling collections for paper, glass, cans, foil, clothes, shoes and car batteries;
• Additional recycling of plastic bottles and cardboard;
• Fortnightly collections for refuse;
• Optional charged composting collections for garden waste.
Households who are part of the trials have all been notified. Refuse and recycling collection arrangements in other areas will not be affected and will continue as usual.
Householders in Sedgemoor with questions about waste and recycling can contact Sedgemoor District Council customer services on 0845 408 2543.
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Notes to Editors:
1. The Somerset Waste Partnership provides waste and recycling services on behalf of all local authorities in Somerset: Mendip, South Somerset, Sedgemoor and West Somerset District Councils, Taunton Deane Borough Council and Somerset County Council.
2. The four trial rounds in Sedgemoor are in the following locations:
- Lympsham & East Brent 782 Households
- Burnham-on-Sea 585 Households
- Axbridge 707 Households
- Catcott, Cossington & Edington 543 Households
There will be further SORT IT PLUS trial rounds in Mendip and Taunton Deane.
Photographs available:
1. Chair of Somerset Waste Partnership Nigel Woollcombe-Adams with food caddy, designed to keep in the kitchen to gather food waste.
2. The new recycling box for cardboard and plastic bottles.
Media Contact:
For enquires about the Somerset Waste Partnership, please contact:
Mark Blaker
Senior Communications Officer
01823 625714 or mark.blaker@somersetwaste.gov.uk
06 May 2008
For further details contact Mark Blaker
01823 625714
Email: mark.blaker@somersetwaste.gov.uk
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