Telford plans new recycling centres to cut landfill
Monday 28th June 2010, 11:34AM BST.
Two new “super community recycling centres” look set to be built around Telford in a bid to cut costs by slashing the amount of waste going to landfill.
Telford & Wrekin Council bosses say they want to increase recycling rates across the borough and have pledged to build the new centres in the next three years.
The first super community recycling centre will be built in Newport to replace the existing facility which has thousands of users every year.
The second is aimed at residents in North Telford and the area of Hortonwood has been earmarked by council bosses as the preferred location.
The Hortonwood centre will also include a waste bulking station, which the council says will help the borough meet its longer term requirements for dealing with household waste.
Councillor Adrian Law-rence, cabinet member for environment, said one of the centre’s aims was to reduce the amount of cash spent on sending waste to landfill.
“These changes will mean that we have recycling facilities across the borough that are really fit for purpose and that will help us to continue to drive up recycling rates,” said Councillor Lawrence.
“It will also help us address the longer term issues around how we deal with waste in the borough.”
The council said it remained hopeful the new centre in Newport will open in late 2012, with the Hortonwood super site opening the following year. Bosses are also looking to improve the services available at the Halesfield recycling centre, which will continue to serve South Telford.
Councillor Lawrence added a specific site for the new CRC and waste station at Hortonwood has yet to be agreed, but once open the combined facility will allow the council to better manage long term waste disposal.
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best move would be to give households a collection box for plastic items.
also companies need to quit spamming letterbox’s with so much junk mail.
what’s wrong with companies advertising in newspapers & local cheap/free magazines or the internet.
i’m sick of the postman putting junk through my letterbox without my name/address on it.
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Guess what? Last week we received a large recycling net for plastics :-) They’re on the case and that’s good news.
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we’ve now got a net bag for plastics
we need a box to put the 5 or so bags for unwanted clothes we get each week
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fair play, i wish shropshire council was half as good as telford for recycling, we get a rubbish service in bridgnorth, and its got worse since bridgnorth council was axed. for me my bin is full of plastics but telford collect and shropshire wont
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