With a recent expansion in the city's weekly multimaterial kerbside recycling service, more than 48,000 households are now able to recycle their cans, newspapers and magazines, glass jars, plastic milk bottles, textiles and shoes. But until now the council has sent all the loose steel cans to a recycling company in Swindon.
” This additional recycling equipment provided by Corus is helping to boost the council’s recycling targets.“
– Alex Selsby, Gloucester CC
Corus has installed new steel can flattening equipment for the council, funded through packaging waste recovery note (PRN) revenue under the packaging producer responsibility regulations. This equipment will allow Gloucester to reduce transport costs significantly by crushing cans locally.
Alex Selsby, waste services manager at Gloucester city council said: “This additional recycling equipment provided by Corus is helping to boost the council’s recycling targets bringing us closer to achieving the 18% target set by the government for 2005/6 – an increase of almost 100% on the rate of 9.7% achieved here in 2003/4. We are very grateful for their ongoing support.”
Garvin Freeman, recycling development representative at Corus Steel Packaging Recycling said: “Gloucester is making a great effort to increase the amount of steel cans it collects and recycles. We are pleased to enable the council to handle a greater quantity of cans more efficiently.”
Visits
Nearly 1300 homes in Gloucester are to get personal visits as part of a month long campaign to encourage residents to recycle more of their household rubbish. A team of staff will be visiting the homes in Quedgeley Severn Vale and Podsmead areas of the city until February 25 as part of the move to improve recycling levels throughout in the city.
The visits are designed to make sure that residents are kept fully informed about local recycling initiatives and to assess if they have any good ideas for improvements or questions that need answering. All the callers will wear distinctive uniforms and carry identification cards. They will not need to enter any homes.
Cllr Andrew Lewis, Goucester’s cabinet member for the care and maintenance of the city, said: “We have recently extended our recycling scheme to cover the whole of the city. We have selected these two areas because recycling rates are lower here than elsewhere.
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“We want to make sure that residents have all got their recycling boxes, know how to use them and understand the importance of recycling. It is an opportunity for them to ask questions as well.
And he added: “We hope to repeat these visits in other parts of the city as part of our commitment to increase recycling figures.”
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