The Cheshire borough originally ran a trial kerbside collection for 7,000 of its households, it has now rolled the scheme out to 35,000 homes across the borough.
Residents are provided with different coloured bags and boxes to separate their recyclable household items – a pink bag for cans and plastic, a green box for paper, and a grey box for glass and cardboard. The recyclables are collected on an alternate weekly basis. A composting service is also available for households which choose to opt into the scheme.
The council has now built a new materials recycling facility to sort and separate the recyclable material.
Corus
The facility includes a baler for aluminium and steel cans, provided by Corus Steel Packaging Recycling through packaging waste recovery note (PRN) revenue under producer responsibility regulations.
Glass, paper and cardboard is also baled at the plant, which has a capacity of around 7,000 tonnes per annum.
David Williams, Corus commercial manager and recycling development representative for North and Scotland, said: “We are delighted that Ellesmere Port and Neston borough council has successfully expanded their kerbside recycling scheme and that it includes steel cans.
In order to handle the additional 450 tonnes of steel the council expects to collect in the first year, Corus was pleased to be able to supply a baler to help transport the cans to be recycled into new steel products,” he added.
Letsrecycle.com is holding a special conference on how to achieve success with alternate weekly collection systems on September 21. For more details see the letsrecycle.com events page
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