The urban authority has decided to deliver 30,000 communal recycling bins to the back courts of tenement buildings, which make up around 60% of Glasgow homes.
 Tenement blocks make up almost two thirds of Glasgow homes, but are now being given recycling facilities |
Accompanied by 11 new vehicles, the bins will be funded by the 27 million award from the Scottish Executive's Strategic Waste Fund.
The move follows a successful pilot scheme for 5,000 homes in the city's West End and comes as a number of urban authorities are looking at new ways to make recycling easier for more densely-populated areas (see letsrecycle.com story).
Councillor David Stevenson, executive member for environmental protection services, said: “Following the award from the Strategic Waste Fund we can now provide a back court recycling service for the huge number of tenemental properties in Glasgow.”
Materials
Under Glasgow's plans, the new bins will take paper, plastic bottles and cans. They will be accompanied by a reusable bags for each household to store their recyclables in.
Material will be taken to Polmadie Materials Reclamation Facility, on the South side of Glasgow, where it will be sorted, baled and sent for reprocessing.
Glasgow council stressed that where it was not possible to place recycling bins in the back courts of apartment buildings, recycling points would be located at suitable sites nearby.
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Every year, more than 400,000 tonnes of waste is generated in Glasgow. Currently, 93,000 households in Glasgow have a monthly bin recycling collection, with 55,000 households receiving organic bin collections.
Cllr Stevenson said: “We hope all residents in these properties will now do their bit to improve the environment we live in by using the new bins.”
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