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Plastic bottle recycling to start
Friday 28th August 2009, 12:26PM BST.
Plastic bottles are to be collected from kerbsides in Shropshire for the first time under a new pilot scheme which begins next month.
The service will be trialled in Whittington, near Oswestry, before being rolled out across the rest of the county.
Shropshire Council hopes that the kerbside collection of plastic bottles will help it to meet tough recycling targets.
At present kerbside collections are only for paper, glass bottles and jars and cans.
There is a separate one for green waste and cardboard.
The new collection will be for plastic bottles including most kitchen and bathroom bottles such as milk containers, and ones for soft drinks, shampoo and washing-up liquid.
Councillor David Roberts, from Shropshire Council, said: “For a long time local residents have asked us to recycle plastic bottles from the kerbside.
“I’m delighted that such a service will be introduced in Whittington this month, and will be provided to residents across the Shropshire Council area in the months ahead.
“This new service will help to boost recycling rates and help us meet our target to recycle more than 50 per cent of household waste by 2012.”
A leaflet which details the new service will be delivered to households in Whittington from Wednesday.
Collections will be made for the first time on September 15 and then every two weeks, alongside the existing recycling collection.
Only households that receive a leaflet will be able to recycle plastic bottles as part of the trial. There will be no other changes to refuse and recycling collections.
The trial will last until February when the rest of the former Oswestry borough area will receive the service, which will eventually include all Shropshire.
The council says Whittington has been chosen for the trial as it was felt to be representative of much of the county and is a compact area contained on a single waste collection round.
During the trial different types of collection vehicles will be used to find out which is the best for the job.
Telford & Wrekin Council does not collect plastics.
But environment chief Councillor Steve Bentley said: “We are committed to explore further new ways we can help residents to recycle more.”
By Iain St John
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excellent news – well done
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They can’t even collect the ones we put out now properly let alone another for plastic bottles!!!
can wait till the high winds when they will no doubt be lots and lots of bottles all over the streets because people have forgotton to squash them.
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halilujah!
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More work for us to do then as unpaid refuse collectors. And yet the council tax continues to increase.
Do they think we don’t have better things to?
Paper, glass, jars, cans, green waste and cardboard…. what next? Different shapes of tea bag?
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ABOUT TIME TOO
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this will just be burnt in their new incinerator, its a big con recycling, they landfill it or burn it all anyway
we all know veolia is a french energy from waste specialist, how convenient then that plastic is made from oil and burns real good!
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why not recycle all plastic then we would not need that horrid incinerator
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this is too little too late
Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council tried to introduce plastic collections as far back as 2006 but the then Shropshire County Council blocked their move legally, all this is shown by the committee reports at the time
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its good to recycle plastic because otherwise it sits in landfill for millions of years. i always think what will of childrens children think of us, what kind of a civilisation will we look like when archeologists dig up our crumbled cities and find nothing but disposable plastic wrappers
we should be glad for this extra service, it will save many thousands of car journeys to the recycling centre
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oh my god not ANOTHER BOX
i must have about 20 different containers outside my little house now, the council really dont live in the real world, its ok for them with their 5 bed homes and drive ways where the heck am i meant to keep all this stuff, the should collect it weekly and mixed together like they do in walsall, that way i would not have to do their job for them
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who cares why how or what ever i just thank god they have finally listened and caved in to the public pressure to provide a half decent recycling service
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the question we should be asking ourselves is why is there so much plastic in thw world, i blame the supermarkets, putting my council tax up to cover their profit margins and deal with their waste for them is not the answer – what ever happened to the piolluter pays principle >???? this should be coming off business rates not MY hard earned income tax, all you need is a stirdy water bottle and a milk man and you should never need to produce a plastic bottle again in your life, so recycling is not the answer, less packaging from supermarkets and life style changes by lazy shoppers is
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good
its all about milk bottles for me as i have kids we go though one of those 4 pinters every day
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Rather than blame ‘lazy shoppers’ and supermarkets, graham allison, shouldn’t we look at ways that governments (local and national) can encourage us all (lazy and conscientious, supermarkets and small businesses) to reduce the terrible damage to the environment caused by plastic waste.
Wales has supermarkets and presumably also has lazy shoppers, but its recycling targets (70% recycling by 2025 and ‘zero waste nation’ by 2050) put ours across the border to shame.
Surely GOVERNMENT POLICIES are what we should be concentrating on.
This policy is a good move by Shropshire Council, but needs to be expanded if we are to catch up with the more progressive parts of the British Isles.
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i have been telling the council to do this for years and they never listened, so i hope this is a sign of things to come
now please will listen agains and cut our council tax!
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all these people moaning – would you rather they dont collect it???? i would say hats off well done to the council for a change
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i would rather they just actually bothered to pick up the clothing and batteries i put out for recycling like they say they will on the leaflet
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Can’t believe some people are so lazy, doesn’t take a few minutes to clean out the bottles, squash them and put them in a recycling box. So glad this is finally happening.
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FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
long overdue – us frustrated recyclers have been waiting years for this
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We’ve moved over to Leicestershire and have had plastic collected fir ages it works really well- even with a refuse collection every 2 weeks we hardly fill the bin any more- it’s not just bottles, yoghurt pots, cartons etc all recycled, foot veg waste into compost , papers into bags brown bin for garden stuff etc
it’s only a matter of time till we’re taxed by waste weight like Ireland so it makes sense to get used to it!
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About time too, just need Telford to follow suit – Hurry up Telford & Wrekin this is the biggest part of my rubbish for sure.
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We should go back to glass bottles and have a refundably deposit can you remember Corona and pubs taking bottles back and giving you money back on the bottles…
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I would really like to know how to get rid of for free (or better still sell) all plastic, such as TV casings etc?
Meanwhile, as Gerry, it does burn well, give off alot of heat.
The incentive people need, is paying for the ‘scrap’.
I recentky sold 13kg of copper, pipework and wire at £2300 per tonne (£30). I think if people realised that you can get paid for recycling, a lot less would end up in the bin!
Just been to the tip and seen a whole pile of car batteries – you muppets!!! Take them to the scrap yard and get £2 per battery.
Honestly *tut*
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All these different coloured bins in Leicestershire?
What if you are colour blind.
Colour blindness effects 7% of males and 0.5% of females. This will just be another excuse why they can’t put the rubbish out!
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