Don’t score a recycling own goal
Residents are being urged not to pass on a recycling opportunity during the 2010 World Cup campaign.
Warwickshire Waste Partnership says that many extra tins, cans and glass bottles are expected to enter the waste stream during the football campaign, and residents are urged to tackle the issue head on.
If the tins, cans and glass bottles are not put in recycling boxes and bins, they will go directly to landfill.
Cllr Alan Cockburn, Warwickshire County Council’s Cabinet members for the Environment, said: “With many World Cup parties and barbeques being planned, make the most of your kerbside recycling collection or the Household Waste Recycling Centres to recycle your wine and beer bottles along with your drink cans.
“Glass sent to landfill will never rot away, but by recycling, it can be processed into more glass bottles and jars, construction products such as bricks and
concrete blocks, ‘Glassphalt’ for road surfacing and ‘processed sand’.
“Up to 80% of your waste bin can be recycled, so don’t score an own goal by filling up the landfill hole.”
For further information on recycling please visit http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/recycling. Alternatively telephone Warwickshire County Council’s Waste Projects Team on 01926 412458 or e-mail waste@warwickshire.gov.uk.