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RESIDENTS
OF FLATS TO PARTICIPATE IN RECYCLING
SCHEME
Do
you live in a flat and want
to get into recycling? If you
live in the London Borough of
Hounslow, their Green Box recycling
scheme is being extended to
high-rise properties
New
recycling containers
in place.
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Because flats often have less
storage space than houses, the
green boxes in which material
for recycling is placed, have
been swapped for 240 litre containers
placed outside the blocks in
a locked steel frame. Residents
will be able to recycle newspapers,
magazines, glass bottles, jars,
food-tins and drink-cans. The
scheme will be fully implemented
by March 2003 and will cover
both council and private properties.
Hounslow
was the first London local authority
to launch a borough-wide doorstep-recycling
scheme, in September 1996 and
now is one of the first to extend
it to high-rise properties.
In December 1999, the Government
awarded Hounslow Council, Beacon
Status for waste management.
In
2001/2002 Hounslow recycled
6,500 tonnes of paper, which
is equivalent to 110,500 trees,
or enough trees to cover 60
football fields. More than 2000
tonnes of scrap metal such as
steel and aluminium cans have
been recycled. This would amount
to all the metal used in a 222
double-decker buses. More than
70,000 people could have a complete
set of clothes with the 350
tonnes of recycled textiles.
Cllr
Ruth Cadbury, Executive Lead
Member for Environmental Issues,
said: �We have broken new ground
in London with our door-to-door
recycling collections. I would
invite our residents to make
the fullest use possible of
this service. With this new
service we are trying to make
it as easy as possible for residents
to do their bit to reduce the
mountain of waste that goes
to landfill every week. �
To
find out more about the scheme,
or discuss any problems you
may have had with collections
please call the Recycling Team
on 020 8583 5060.
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