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HACKNEY’S GETS FIRST BOROUGH WIDE RECYCLING SCHEME
22/11/2002
Hackney’s first borough wide recycling service will hit the streets from Spring 2003, thanks to a new 18 month contract worth £1.2 million, between Hackney Council and ECT Recycling.
Hackney’s first borough wide recycling service will hit the streets from Spring 2003, thanks to a new 18 month contract worth £1.2 million, between Hackney Council and ECT Recycling, the UK’s largest community recycling provider.
Just under one tonne of waste is produced by the average Hackney home each year of which only 2.2 per cent is currently recycled. Under the new scheme, residents will be able to recycle up to 40% of their household waste by using the green box and flats based recycling service.
This ambitious bid for a cleaner, greener and more attractive borough will enable Hackney’s 56,000 households to put their glass, cans, paper, tin foil, textiles, shoes, engine oil, car and household batteries, and yellow pages into a green recycling box which will be collected by ECT Recycling from the kerbside each week.
Residents living in medium-to-high rise flats will be able to take advantage of a new estates based service, under which the borough’s 32,000 flats will have access to mini recycling centres for glass jars and bottles, food and drinks cans, as well as paper.
ECT Recycling is the largest not-for-profit, community owned, recycling organisation in the UK. This new 18 month contract, which has the possibility of a further 18 month extension, will mean that ECT Recycling is now providing a valuable doorstep recycling service to one in five Londoners.
Rhona Coulter, Recycling Operations Director of ECT Recycling, says:
“This new contract shows that community recycling is going from strength to strength and we are delighted to help the London Borough of Hackney meet its statutory recycling targets.”
Jules Pipe, Hackney’s newly elected Mayor said “Introducing doorstep recycling, and recycling 18 percent of the borough’s household waste by 2006 is one of my priorities. This contract with ECT is one of the means by which we can achieve our target.”