The “near entry” banks give estate residents living in 10,000 properties the opportunity to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, cans and glass, and they have been sited either by building's refuse bin store or as close to the entry of buildings as possible.
Councillor Brian Hailey, Haringey's cabinet member for environment and conservation, outlined just why the council was introducing the provision for estates.
“Our new Greenest Borough Strategy sets out the need to ensure that every Haringey resident has easy access to high quality recycling facilities. Our rollout of the new estates recycling banks is a massive step towards that goal,” he said.
“Thousands of our residents have made recycling part of their daily habit and I'd like to thank them for their efforts.
“But still 75% of waste produced in the borough is being sent for incineration or to landfill, causing serious damage to our environment and contributing to climate change,” he added.
Once the facilities have been introduced to an estate, residents will receive a leaflet and accompanying letter explaining exactly which materials they can recycle through the service, with the council aiming to introduce the banks borough-wide by the end of November 2008.
Haringey is one of the seven member councils of the North London Waste Authority, which announced a week ago that it expects to submit an Outline Business Case to Defra by the end of this month, in a bid to secure £520 million in PFI funding for an MBT-based waste treatment project (see letsrecycle.com story).
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