Southend recycles more than half its waste (From Southend Standard)
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Southend recycles more than half its waste
2:00pm Thursday 1st November 2012 in News By David Trayner
Role models pick up certificates at Southend’s first Community Recycling Conference
MORE than half of Southend’s rubbish has been recycled this year with the equivalent of 660 double-decker buses in weight saved from landfill in three months alone.
Southend Council is well on the way towards its target of recycling 60 per cent of the borough’s waste by 2015 with more than 10,000 tonnes of material recycled or composted between May and July.
Tony Cox, cabinet member for waste, said: “Congratulations to everyone for reaching this remarkable recycling total.
“So many of us have been recycling for years and these figures show that every envelope, plastic bottle or tin can really does add up and make a huge difference.”
The recycling rate in the borough has risen steadily from 34 per cent in 2007-08 to 47 per cent last financial year.
Most of the material was recycled by people using their pink recycling sacks for paper, cardboard, household plastic packaging, glass bottles and jars, cans and tins as well as their blue food waste bins for food waste such as vegetable and fruit peelings, plate scrapings and tea bags.
Residents are also using the Household Waste Recycling Centres in Stock Road, Southend, and Leigh Marshes to recycle their household electrical items, carpets, green waste and much more. Pink recycling sacks, blue food waste bins and the clear textile recycling sacks are collected every week from Southend households.
For more information visit www.southend.gov.uk/recycling.
Comments(9)
Gridlock2
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4:45pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Gridlock2
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4:48pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Eric Whim wrote:So true - It is an absolute disgrace driving through Southend and seeing unsightly pink and black bags littering the pavements. For goodness sake Southend Council invest in some proper bins and enter the 21st century!
the other half gets strewn all over the local area, in hedges, brooks and by the side of the road....
RichardAC
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5:00pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Luscious Linda
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5:46pm Thu 1 Nov 12
southendshrimper
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8:43pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Gridlock2 wrote:Who will pay for them?
Eric Whim wrote: the other half gets strewn all over the local area, in hedges, brooks and by the side of the road....So true - It is an absolute disgrace driving through Southend and seeing unsightly pink and black bags littering the pavements. For goodness sake Southend Council invest in some proper bins and enter the 21st century!
Us if you don't live in the borough & you have the bins then so be it.
Brunning999
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8:08am Fri 2 Nov 12
Gridlock2
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4:38pm Fri 2 Nov 12
southendshrimper wrote:So - would you also go back to bucketing your sewage out on the pavement - or getting your drinking water from a local ditch - hello 21st century?
Gridlock2 wrote:Who will pay for them?
Eric Whim wrote: the other half gets strewn all over the local area, in hedges, brooks and by the side of the road....So true - It is an absolute disgrace driving through Southend and seeing unsightly pink and black bags littering the pavements. For goodness sake Southend Council invest in some proper bins and enter the 21st century!
Us if you don't live in the borough & you have the bins then so be it.
Max Impact
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5:14pm Sat 3 Nov 12
Eric Whim says...
3:49pm Thu 1 Nov 12