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Residents are praised for recycling efforts

Tom Rowley
26/ 9/2007

GLOSSOP residents are being praised for helping High Peak exceed targets for recyling and keeping household waste out of landfill sites.

In July, around 35 per cent of waste was recycled, mainly through garden waste and cardboard being collected in the north and central areas of the borough through the Binnovation recycling scheme, which started in Glossop.

High Peak's recycling target for 2007/8 is 30 per cent.

Contamination - which includes non-compostable waste like plastic, glass and beverage cartons - as well as food waste like fruit and vegetable peelings, has been slight. It is important to keep contamination as low as possible because the composting site can reject material that contains too much of it.

Although food waste cannot currently be accepted in the green-lidded bins, the composting facility which is being built in Buxton will be able to process it. This means that next year food waste can be added to the garden waste and cardboard mix.
Glossop residents will be notified of this change in the service in advance.

Councillor John Haken, High Peak Council's executive member for the environment, said: "The support that the council has been receiving from residents has been excellent.

"The high levels of participation and very low levels of contamination are vital to the success of the scheme.
"The scheme is being extended to Buxton and we are confident that our recycling performance will increase even further.
"I urge all residents to keep up the good work," he added.

"By using the containers provided at home and by taking plastic bottles and cartons to the recycling sites, we can keep contamination down and continue this promising trend."