More than half of Shropshire’s waste being recycled
Friday 3rd June 2011, 2:58PM BST.
More than half of Shropshire’s household waste is now being recycled rather than ending up in landfill, it was revealed today.
New indicative figures released by Shropshire Council show that the final recycling rate for the last financial year was likely to be about 52.6 per cent.
The authority today said that the amount of waste going to landfill had dropped by nearly 10 per cent in just a year.
It should help the authority maintain its position as one of the best performing for recycling in the UK.
James Thompson, from the waste management department at the council, said that indicative unaudited data showed that recycling rates were continuing to improve.
He said: “In perspective since last year we have reduced waste to landfill by almost nine per cent and have continued the trend of reducing total household waste
“To really put that in context, compared with 2006/7, household waste to landfill is down 40 per cent and recycling is up by 25 per cent.”
The figures show that of the recycling total, 48,852 tonnes was composting while 31,824 tonnes was recycling.
A total of 70,926 tonnes of waste was sent to landfill (46.09 per cent) with 2,293 tonnes being sent for incineration (1.49 per cent).
Mr Thompson said: “We are the best performing authority for recycling in the West Midlands and last year we were fifth in the UK out of several hundred councils.
“People in Shropshire have responded really well to recycling.”
By Russell Roberts
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Good news! to be fair since they introduced the orange nets I think its a brilliant service and I have almost no rubbish left in my bin now except for Black plastic so they need to sort that one out
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thats rubbish in Sweden they recycle 60% and in Belgium they do 75%, the thing to do now is to aim to be ZERO waste, Shropshire is just not ambitious enough
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I guess this depends if you are a glass is half full or glass is half empty person, its better than sending it all to landfill i guess but i would say room for improvement!
If it was a school report say C – , good marks for effort but must try harder
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The figure could be higher, if the wise people of shropshire council got thier act together, because some traders in oswestry want to recycle but cannot because they have not got the right type of vehicle in oswestry to collect it, so either its a trip to the local collection points or mix it in with the general waste.
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