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The Link Magazine • April 2005
Carless Boot Sale Recycling put at top of agenda
Oliver Tomkins School A new waste management scheme with much greater emphasis on recycling starts on 4 April.
Beaumaris Road. Toothill Instead of a fortnightly paper with Swindon Services, said the will be heavily fined which will be
Saturday 23 April, and card collection, 30,000 homes weekly black sack collection of reflected in higher council tax bills
across the town will receive a non-recyclables will continue, or reductions in services.
11am - 1pm
weekly curbside collection service "Currently 20 per cent of waste is Another 40,000 homes across
for glass bottles and jars, food and recycled, which is short of expec- Swindon will receive the fort-
New contact details drinkcans, textiles, aluminium foil, tations for this year. nightly paper and card collection
Conservative councillor Peter as well as paper and card. "In the next financial year cen- which means 90 per cent of homes
Greenhalgh. who represents The areas covered by the initia- tral government has set Swindon a in the borough will be covered by
Freshbrook and Grange Park (in- tive being taken by Swindon Serv- 30 per cent target which puts us in some kind of recycling service.
cluding The Prinnells), has a new ices include 10,000 homes in West the highest recycling bracket for Abookletsettingoutnewrefuse
telephone number and can be Swindon, Highworth, where an ex- councils. The new curbside collec- collection rounds and what can be
contacted on 349675. panded recycling schemehasbeen tion service will boost the amount recycled will be delivered to every
in operation since last year, Old being recycled if householders re- household.
E-mail can also be sent to: Town and Lawns, Walcot West, spond by separating what can be For recycling advice and queries
Peter.Greenhalgh@nationwide parts of Haydon Wick and parts of recycled from black bag waste that about the new arrangements, call
.co.uk
Stratton. goes to landfill." the waste management team on
Andrew Cook, recycling officer Councils that fail to meet targets 463463.

FLORIDA VILLA Summer start for wheelie bins in the West
Swindon Services launches an experiment across West Swindon in June which will see wheelie bins
replace the weekly black bag collection.
The bins which can hold at least ment will inform how the council weekly black bag service and peo-
three black bags will be emptied deals with waste management in ple who cannot move wheelies will
every two weeks, future years." continue to have assistance."
At the West Swindon Area Fo- In response to the 25 residents at West Swindon councillor Nick
rum on 14 March, council waste the meeting, all of whom were keen Martin, cabinet lead member for
manager Geoff Davies, said he on recycling and called for im- finance, said the council had to
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hoped people will adapt to the proved plastic collection, Geoff meet the cost for both refuse col-
Sleeps 8 - Large Pool curbside recycling scheme which said that a plastic recycling bank lection and the tax on landfill dis-
will mean there is less need to col- would be installed at the West posal. "The council tax payer is
15 minutes to Disney
lect non-recyclable landfill waste. Swindon Centre by April. going to be hit if we don't improve
Tel: 01793 825378 "Government is demanding that a He added that not every house- our recycling rate, so I would en-
great deal more refuse is recycled hold would be suitable for wheelie courage everybody to sort their
or view www.jonesvilla.com and the evidence from this experi- bins. "Some areas will stay on the waste and recycle more."

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