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 having 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.
The latest areas to get the service are Tuddenham St Martin, Eyke,
Campsea Ashe, part of Trimley St Martin, part of Saxmundham, part
of Leiston, Westerfield, Stratford St Andrew, Little Glemham,
Farnham, Swilland, Witnesham, part of Martlesham, Cratfield,
Walpole, Huntingfield, Linstead, Ubbeston, Heveningham, Chediston,
Bawdsey, Alderton, part of Hollesley, Culpho, Great Bealings, and
part of Kelsale.
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/waste/recycling or telephone
01394 444050. The new service will begin for those areas in the
week commencing July 14 when their grey lidded bin is due to be
emptied, with their brown and blue-lidded bins empted a week
later.