Shropshire recycling centres to stay at seven-days-a-week opening for now - here's why
Household recycling centres in Shropshire will maintain their regular week-long opening hours for the next six months, a meeting has been told.
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All of the authority’s five recycling centres are set to reduce their opening hours to six days per week as part of changes designed to reduce costs in the council’s recycling operation.
But an agreement with council waste contractors Veolia will underwrite the costs of maintaining seven days per week opening for a period of six months while Shropshire Council gets its booking system up and running.
The changes, part of council-wide measures designed to save the authority £62 million this year, also include the introduction of a new booking system for visits to recycling centres, which the council hopes will reduce the amount of trade waste brought onto sites.
During a meeting of the council’s scrutiny committee on Friday), council waste management officer Mark Foxall said the council would be carrying out data collection on visits to the sites to determine the level of cost saving generated by the move to introduce a booking system.
