TRIMLEY ST MARTIN GETTING GREENER
| Published: 3rd July 2008 17:59 |
Part of Trimley St Martin is set to receive additional recycling services as the Green Roll-Out continues across the district.
Nearly 5,000 more homes are set to receive an improved recycling service this month that means paper, cans, foil, cardboard and plastic containers can be recycled every fortnight in the new blue-lidded bin.
This will be the second phased roll-out of the service this year, which by the end of October will see the total number of homes being served doubled to 36,000, or roughly two-thirds of the district.
"Across the district, our residents have been recycling a record 45 per cent of their household waste during the last year, and those with the improved service have been hitting 54 per cent. I cannot stress how important it is that we all make the effort to get into the recycling habit because it will cost us the earth if we do not," said Cllr Andrew Nunn, Cabinet Member for the Green Environment.
All those due to get the new service have already been contacted and given the opportunity to attend information roadshows which have proved very successful in the past in ensuring that any potential problems are identified and ironed out in advance.
"The rising costs of landfill taxes and other charges mean that we could be faced with an extra £9 million bill for disposing of the household waste we are collecting, so if we can all recycle more that potential bill will be drastically reduced.
"We are rolling out the improved service as quickly as we can, but financial restraints mean it will be 2010 before every home is reached. I can only urge people to make as much use of the services they have as possible, and to remember that all their waste food, cooked or uncooked, can go in their brown wheeled bins," added Cllr Nunn.
For further information about recycling services, please visit www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk/yourhome/recycling or telephone 01394 444050. The new service will begin for those areas in the week commencing 14 July when their grey lidded bin is due to be emptied, with their brown and blue-lidded bins emptied a week later.
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