Simon Jackson, the boss at a Halifax nightclub has a problem - he’s stuck with several tonnes of glass bottles and has nowhere to recycle them. The Acapulco recycles approximately 14,000 bottles a week, something the club managers have done for the past eight years. Now that Sita has taken over the Calderdale waste collection contract, the company tells Jackson thanks, but no thanks.
Jackson typically saves up bottles for a week and then hauls them to a recycling site at Lee Bank. Sita has told Jackson that he now needs to take the bottles elsewhere.
“We got no money out of it and there was no charge,” said Mr Jackson to the Halifax Courier.
“It is now about money and not about what we are supposed to do for the environment.”
The club didn’t have a waste collection contract because there was no one to recycle the bottles. It was never about the money with Jackson.
“If it was going to cost us money to get rid of the bottles, I wanted them to be recycled,” said Mr Jackson.
“There are companies that will do that now but it is very expensive.”
Mr Jackson said if he were to continue to recycle the bottles he would have to make a lengthy motorway journey that would defeat the purpose of reducing the company’s carbon footprint.
Still, Sita says they don’t handle commercial waste.
“But over three nights we produce more glass than the average person over three years,” said Mr Jackson.
A Sita spokeswoman said the site in question is council-owned site and has the authority to make its own operating decisions.
To learn more, go to: sita.co.uk/
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