Swindon Council is confident that its goal to increase the recycling rate to fifty per cent by the year 2010 is still on course. Statistics which were tabled for discussion at a recent Swindon council meeting indicated that the council was still on the course to achieving this goal.
In 2006 the council promised that four years from then, fifty per cent of household would be undergoing composting or recycling.
Statistics for last year show improvements being recorded monthly in the collection of dry recyclable waste since the introduction of kerbside recycling. However a drop in recycling was observed during the month of December.
A cabinet member for local environment, Brian Mattock explained that during the Christmas festivities there was a tendency by people to stay indoors and avoid going into their gardens and that was the reason compostable waste levels went down.
Brian Mattock further explained that around Easter a big recovery is noted with people being able to spend more time outdoors.
The cabinet member for local environment added that the figures were an indication of the success the recycling service had turned out to be. He attributed the success not to the policy makers but to the residents of Swindon for their cooperation which had led to the reduction of the amount of waste going to landfills by about six thousand tonnes.
The chairperson of the environment and leisure overview committee, Glenn Smith who is also the councillor for Covingham and Nythe was excited about the improvements the council had made and was of the view that the figures were much higher were it not for new ways of tabulating wood waste.
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