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ECT RECYCLING LAUNCHES NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH'S FIRST BOROUGH-WIDE MULTI-MATERIAL RECYCLING SCHEME

13/10/2003

Nuneaton and Bedworth's first borough-wide multi-material recycling service enables residents to recycle a wide range of household rubbish from home.

Nuneaton and Bedworth's first borough-wide multi-material recycling service will hit the streets from mid October, enabling residents to recycle a wide range of household rubbish from home, thanks to a new five-year partnership, worth more than £0.5 million, between Nuneaton and Bedworth Council and ECT Recycling, the UK's largest community recycling provider.

The average Nuneaton or Bedworth household produces just under a tonne of rubbish each year, of which only 5.5 per cent is currently recycled. Under the new scheme, residents will find it easy to get into the recycling habit by using their red recycling box to recycle everyday items that normally end up in the bin.

This ambitious bid for a greener borough will enable Nuneaton and Bedworth's 49,000 low-rise households to put their glass, cans, paper, tin foil, textiles, shoes, engine oil, car and household batteries into a red recycling box, which will be collected by ECT Recycling from the kerbside every fortnight.

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 borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth meet its statutory recycling targets."

Councillor Geoff Ashford, portfolio holder for Health and the Environment at Nuneaton and Bedworth Council, says:

"Introducing a multi-material collection service, and recycling 24 percent of the borough's household waste by 2006 is one of my main priorities. This partnership with ECT is one service that will help us achieve this target."

ECT Recycling is the largest not-for-profit, community owned, recycling organisation in the UK.