Last week saw recyclable material collected through the council's pink bag scheme sent to landfill because of a disagreement between the council owned CWM Environmental and its contractor LAS Waste of Lampeter (see letsrecycle.com story).
 A temporary transfer station has been licensed by the Environment Agency to help cope with Carmarthenshire's pink bag scheme |
As of this week, a new recycling operation has been set up by Carmarthenshire and CWM Environmental, with a new temporary facility at the Nantycaws landfill installed to separate the pink sacks.
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A special area has now been licensed by the Environment Agency as a transfer station, and new staff have been brought in to pick out the pink sacks and separate them into a skip before they are sent to the recycling facility at nearby Johnstown.
The council's director of technical services, Richard Workman, said: “Arrangements have been put in place very quickly for a temporary transfer station at Nantycaws. Extra staff are working at the site and all pink bags are being sorted for recycling from there.
“We are working very closely with CWM and we are very pleased by the way it is running,” he added.
Carmarthenshire council is now planning to extend the pink bag scheme to an additional 2,000 households in October, with new vehicles brought in to take the pink bags directly to Johnstown.
The pink bag collection scheme is one of three systems that Carmarthenshire uses for the collection of its recyclable waste.
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