Over the weekend residents of Newcastle were shocked to find that a good number of the bottle banks in the town were full to capacity. This led to glass bottles piling up or being left lying around the bottle banks.
A disturbed resident wondered why the Inter-Church recycling initiative had been let to die only for the residents to now have to bear with lack of collection services. An inter-church community project used to operate a door to door glass collection and recycling scheme for Newcastle households, but it was forced to fold up earlier in the year because of financial difficulties.
The disturbed resident who sought anonymity decried the situation and nostalgically described how things used to work earlier. He added that the reason the inter-church project folded up was because the local authority refused to fund it.
The environmental services operations manager of Down District Council, Joe Parkes revealed that there were more than thirty glass collection and recycling sites throughout the district and that Arc 21 was responsible for providing the emptying and recycling services of the glass bottles.
Down District Council’s environmental services operations manager also disclosed that while investigations into the reasons of why the bottle banks in Newcastle were full and not emptied were underway, the local authority had meanwhile organised for the quick clearing of the bottle banks.
The environmental services operations manager further outlined the three glass collection and recycling sites saying that one of them was at the Donard park car park, another at the Tesco car park and the other at the Newcastle tennis courts. He also added that the new Bann Road Household Recycling Centre could be utilised for glass recycling as well.
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