Dundee city council invested 210,000 in enlarging and updating its Marchbanks civic amenity site, which has been rebranded as a “recycling centre”.
Depot
The project followed the renovation of the refuse vehicle depot next door to the CA site, which was finished a year ago. A spokesman for the council said: “Before, people were having to drive through the depot to get to the CA site. The investment in this new centre was about improving access and making it safer for the public.”
It is hoped that bigger skips for a wider range of recyclables and a more pleasant environment will encourage more people to use the site, on Harefield Road. The refurbished site now has a container for domestic fluorescent tubes, as well as seven 13 cubic metre bins for the disposal of materials including garden waste, wood and metals, and smaller bins for plastics, paper, cardboard and glass bottles.
Safety
Neil Glen, environmental and consumer protection convener, said: “Domestic refuse is a great starting point for recycling policies. There were safety issues that had to be addressed with the old centre, but these can now be more easily monitored at this new centre.”
Dundee, which has a population of 150,000, is one of Scotland's highest recycling authorities, with a recycling rate of 21%. It received 144,000 from the Scottish Executive's Strategic Waste Fund last December
(see letsrecycle.com story). The Executive has set Scottish councils the target of recycling 25% by 2006 and 55% by 2020.
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