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The Link Magazine • July 2005 5
Use your wheelies less in the West.
Recycle more says council.
Ten thousand households in West Swindon - excluding Sparcells and
Peatmoor - are taking part in the town's first waste collection service
using wheelie bins combined with a recycling collection.
Paper, glass, cans, He added that the
foil and textiles for re- " ' West Swindon service
cycling are being col- is an experiment and
lected every week, but - the council wants
the wheelies are emp- feedback from resi-
tied fortnightly. dents.
This has led to some To comment, write
neighbourhoods look- x » . to: Waste Manage-
ing a mess because ment Team, Swindon
loose waste bags are not es - Services, Waterside
being collected and Park, Swindon SN2
wheelies are not emp- 2DW or mail: acook@
tied if they are over- j4 swindon.gov.uk
filled and the lids are • Sparcells and Peat-
not closed. moor remains on
Swindon Council re- weekly black bag and
cycling officer Andrew recycling collections
Cook said, "wedistrib- eu . because all 10,000
uted information with wheelies were issued
the wheelie bins dur- to the other parts of
ing May advising residents of how West Swindon.
the new service would work. In • To avoid your neighbourhood
some streets there is a lot of evi- being disfigured by uncollected
dence of sorting and recycling, but rubbish, sort and recycle more, or
in others, people are leaving out a take waste to the council's recy-
lot of side waste. The council does cling centre at Waterside Park.
not have the resources to remove • Keep your wheelie smelling
this. sweet with a bin liner. See the ad-
"We are asking all residents to vert on page 48.
recycle more so that less has to go Asda goes big on the environment
into wheelies." and recycling - see page 43

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