Just 10% of the estimated 6,580 tonnes of glass used each year in Nuneaton and Bedworth is recycled. Part of Berryman's role under the new contract, which will run until November 2007, will be to increase this figure by installing more bring banks and developing educational and awareness-raising programmes.
Resource
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Councillor Pat Henry said: “Berryman will actively help us to meet our government recycling targets. Through educational and public information programmes, glass can be seen as a resource and not only as a waste material.”
Collected glass will be re-melted for container manufacture by Rockware Glass. Previously in the borough, glass was collected by a council in-house team and processed mainly by Berryman.
Tender
The new contract will not include glass kerbside collections – which do not yet exist in the borough. But a spokesman for the council revealed that a tender document for a kerbside collection planned for July 2003 was about to be released.
Mick Keogh, managing director of Berryman, commented on the bring bank contract: “We look forward to working closely with the council to add value to the glass recycling activity, as well as encouraging residents to recycle more through imaginative local initiatives.”
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