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Cardboard recycling returning to south Shropshire

Kerbside cardboard recycling will return to south Shropshire at the start of December it has been revealed.

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The heavy duty blue bags for cardboard and paper are already familiar to many across the county, with Shrewsbury the first area to get them at the start of October.

Two months later the cardboard collection scheme has also been rolled out in much of north Shropshire, with the south set to get the blues bags from December 5.

The bags will take newspapers, magazines, junk mail, catalogues, egg boxes, cardboard packaging and cereal packets among other paper and cardboard items, and can be put out for collection alongside the usual plastic, metal and glass recycling boxes.

Andy Boddington, Shropshire councillor for Ludlow North said the move was very welcome.

"This is long overdue," he said.

"We have had to endure five years without kerbside collection. Cardboard is a vital resource and we should not be burning it in the Battlefield incinerator in Shrewsbury.

"When we resume household collection, we should also see a reduction in fly-tipping.

"We probably have more household cardboard waste than ever because we rely so much on online services delivered by the Royal Mail or couriers."

The service will have two new elements – the collection of cardboard with paper in a 75 litre, reusable blue bag and secondly, the fact that residents will no longer need to present glass bottles and jars in a separate box to the plastics and metal containers.

Veolia will begin delivery of the blue bags in the south Shropshire area from Monday. The bags will be accompanied by a leaflet on the recycling and waste service.

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