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Record breaking start to 2017 for recycling in South Northants

Record breaking start to 2017 for recycling

It has been a record breaking start to 2017 in South Northamptonshire with the highest recycling collection figures since the current regime began, and a record number of extra recycling bins sold during a Christmas sale.
 
With a recycling rate of just over 60 per cent so far for 2016/17, South Northamptonshire Council (SNC) is cementing itself as one of the best recycling authorities in the country.
 
Cllr Dermot Bambridge, SNC’s portfolio holder for environmental services said: “I’d like to thank residents for the enthusiasm they have shown in support of our goals to drive down costs and reduce the district’s environmental impact.
 
“Because residents are careful when recycling, the number of items that shouldn’t be there is very low. But the evidence shows that it is possible to recycle or compost up to 80 per cent of waste from the average home and we will seek to continually improve our collection rate.”
 
The biggest improvement has been the 281 tonnes of food waste collected during January 2017, a 47 tonne increase on the January 2016 figure of 234 tonnes.

The council also collected 960 tonnes of recycling from the blue bins this January, compared to 918 tonnes during January 2016.
 
Every Christmas SNC offers a discount on extra blue recycling bins for those households who wish to permanently increase their recycling capacity. This December a total of 160 blue recycling bins were sold, up from 150 the previous year.
 
Anyone without the space for a second blue bin, or those who rarely exceed the capacity of a single bin, can place extra recycling beside their blue bin for collection (no black bags).
 
In 2015/16 SNC was 12th out of 351 recycling authorities in the UK with a 59 per cent recycling rate - http://www.letsrecycle.com/councils/league-tables/201516-overall-performance/.
 
South Oxfordshire Council has the highest recycling rate in the country with 66.6 per cent, compared to the national average of 43 per cent.
 
For more information about SNC recycling system visit - http://www.southnorthants.gov.uk/wasteandrecycling.htm
 

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