£3m site for waste opened in town
Monday 21st September 2009, 12:24PM BST.
Recycling centre staff Catherine Slaytor, Richard Oakley and Colin Richards.
Oswestry’s £3 million recycling centre opened on the town’s industrial estate today.
The site at Mile Oak Industrial Estate will replace the centre at Maesbury Road, which closed yesterday.
Shropshire Council says it will transform how the town recycles rubbish by helping to significantly increase the amount of waste recycled in the region.
The site will be able to handle up to 75,000 tonnes of waste per year.
Visitors will be able to recycle more than 20 different materials including garden waste, timber, cardboard, scrap metal, glass bottles, cans, plastic bottles, textiles, household batteries and other recyclable materials.
There is also an area for bulky items, an area for soil and rubble, and a separate storage for hazardous wastes.
Shropshire Councillor David Roberts said: “This fantastic new facility will make it easier for Oswestry residents to recycle their household waste.”
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whats the better an incinerator here next ?
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good
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Its got to go somewhere
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anything that makes it easier to recycle is a good thing, but i think people need to wake up and use the services on ofer, on my estate in Oswestry i reckon less than a third of people put a recycling box out, its a free collection service offered and no one is using it! unbelievable some people but there the same familys who let their dogs use my hedge as a toilet and you know the sort
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3 million with PFI means tax payers will pay more like 6 million over time to ‘rent’ this back off the builders, this is a waste of taxpayers money, capital projects should be funded by the council direct, through land sales etc, not loaning it at credit card rates – this is gordon browns approach which has landed us all neck deep in debt, stop borrowing either ave up for it and buy it your self OR go with out, lesson for the council and the public at large
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it used to be a landfill site here, right in the middle of the town, so its a great day that its closed and been replaced with a more recycling based facility instead, i am very opposed to burning waste here though and i hope that is nevr considered acceptable so near to human settlement
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with pfi prices it will cost the taxpayer twice that £3million, credit card interest rates, renting things you could buy outright is bonkers economics from gordon brown
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More recycling is good news
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Oswestry’s record in recycling is one of the best in Shropshire, and they deserve praise for what they have done.
Recently, however, they were overtaken by South Shropshire, which is now the 4th best performing authority for recycling in the whole country. ( See http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=5315&listitemid=52221 )
COLLECTING FOOD WASTE was the key to improving recycling rates there.
What do other people feel about spreading South Shropshire’s good practice to the rest of Shropshire?
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recycling = good, burning = bad
NO to incineration in Shrewsbury or Oswestry or anywhere, dixoins are deadly and people are precious
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recycling is a big con desingned by the EU to tax you more, when we are back in we will bring back weekly bin day and pull out of the EU with all their silly regulations
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3 million !! its only a basic light industrial unit with afew skips on it, no wonder these veolia guys are a massive corporate multinational, the council is a mug to pay that much, i could build something like that for less than one million
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Tory Boy, the anaerobic digestion plant in South Shropshire turns household organic waste into heat, electricity and a digestate material that can be used as a soil conditioner or fertiliser.
This sounds pretty good to me, and I am baffled that such plants are not more widespread.
Could you explain to Shropshire readers WHY you think ‘recycling is a big con desingned by the EU to tax you more’?
Or will you be unable to do so and disappear (as usually happens on these threads when straightforward questions are asked)?
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