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Recycling Drive in Loughborough and Charnwood
Posted on 16/07/08
REFUSE collection vehicles around Charnwood are donning new advertising panels to promote recycling initiatives in the area.
The panels, on the side of the vehicles, currently advertise Charnwood Borough Councils brown bin scheme, a project designed to recycle garden waste.
Around 17,000 Charnwood residents currently subscribe to the scheme, which collects 4,500 tonnes of garden waste for composting every year.
Back in March, the Council began charging subscribers to the scheme at a much cheaper rate, if they paid by direct debit.
Residents can still take on the offer, paying just 15 by direct debit instead of the full price of 26 for the year.
Kath Kay, Charnwood Borough Councils Waste Policy Manager, said: The brown bin scheme is a more environmentally friendly way of managing compostable waste.
All the contents of the brown bins are composted and used in landscaping projects and the restoration of brown-field sites.
Subscribers simply leave their brown bin on the kerbside as they would a wheelie bin, and the garden waste is collected up on a fortnightly basis. It is hoped that any residents who are not registered to the scheme will be encouraged to do so after seeing the adverts on the collection vehicles.
The panels, measuring 2.5m by 1.2m, are to be changed after six months, and can themselves be re-used every year, further endorsing the environmental point.
Cllr Mike Preston, Charnwood Borough Councils Cabinet Member for Environment, said: Hopefully the new adverts will inspire many more Charnwood residents to take us up on this fantastic offer. The great thing is that they will be seen by people all around the area.
For more information on the Garden Waste Service, or sign up for the Brown Bin Scheme, visit www.charnwood.gov.uk/environment/recyclingcollectionservice, e-mail cleaner.greener@charnwood.gov.uk, or phone Loughborough (01509) 634 563.
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