Things to be aware of – National Recycling Week
This week from Monday 22nd June until Sunday 28th June is National Recycling
Week, a week of events aimed at highlighting and improving the amount of
rubbish that we currently recycle.
Further information on the week and suggestions on how you can improve your
recycling can be access by going to the Recycle Now website at
www.recyclenow.com
One thing I think we need to look at tackling better locally to improve
people's involvement or willingness to recycle is around the plastic bottle
bins, which from the local examples on the shops at Gamesley and the one at
the back of the Co-op in Glossop both seem to suffer from the problem of
people either not been able to get there recycling in the bin or choosing
for whatever reason not to put there recycling in the bins and leaving the
area around the bins generally looking a mess.
To improve this we need to both improve the information on how to use the
bottle banks along with ensuring that if the area's are a mess, there is
better monitoring / cleanup of the problems as quite often it is a number of
days before problems at the bins are often addressed leaving the area's
looking quite untidy and potentially putting people off using them.