Plans for the expansion of a waste recycling initiative for retail outlets and businesses in west Oxfordshire are in high gear.
The waste recycling initiative was started in mid-2007 and has so far managed to divert one hundred and thirty tonnes of glass and cardboard from being sent to landfills.
Currently one hundred and twenty customers have joined the scheme and the West Oxfordshire District Council is planning to add to that number.
The recycling boxes are collected on Saturday every week and the customers can choose from four distinct sizes of waste collection boxes.
The manager of Usborne Publishing archive store, Zoe Wright admitted that before the scheme was started all their cardboard waste used to be dumped in landfill sites which bothered their conscience but now the recycling service had helped matters.
A cabinet member for the environment, David Harvey, disclosed that the effectiveness of the council’s commercial waste collection scheme would be up for evaluation in the spring of 2009. Meanwhile the council would be considering ways of providing business customers with an improved service which would involve collection of a broader array of recyclable waste.
The council recently ran a trial glass recycling scheme for bars and pubs and it was well received.
Clanfield Tavern’s Tom Gee, for instance was thrilled that they no longer had to dump their used glass bottles into the wheelie bins. The council introduced the recycling initiative after a study revealed that ninety three per cent of enterprises preferred recycling their waste than having it dumped in landfill sites.
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