One in five councils now recycle at kerbside 15/02/2010
The number of Local Authorities that collect beverage cartons at kerbside has risen to one in five. Cambridge City Council is the latest in a series of Local Authorities which have followed the success of carton recycling bring banks by introducing kerbside collection, making it even easier for residents to embrace carton recycling. Residents can simply place their empty cartons into household recycling boxes or sacks for collection.
Fay Dashper, Recycling Operations Manager at Tetra Pak, commented, "By enabling cartons to be recycled though kerbside collections, councils like Cambridge City are now at the forefront of recycling efforts in the UK. They are helping their residents to recycle even more of their cartons, more easily. We and our industry partners are committed to increasing the level of carton recycling in the UK and our work with local councils across the country takes us and people living in these areas one step closer to achieving that."
Since April 2007, the UK carton industry has made significant funding available to help Local Authorities interested in starting up carton collection schemes in their area. Since the introduction of carton recycling schemes across the nation by Tetra Pak and the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE UK), cartons can now be recycled in 86% of UK Local Authority areas, and one in five Local Authorities now collect cartons at kerbside.
Your Comments:
"Kerb you efforts" by Jeremy Gorst
Its a fantastic result in driving the kerbside collection to 1 in 5 in such a short space of time. The discussion about the ease of recycling cartons has always been a difficult one to take with those I meet outside of Tetra Pak. The cradle (FSC) to grave (kerbside recycling) story of our cartons, marks us out as one of most environmentally friendly packaging producers in the world. Good Luck in your quest for 100% Kerbside collection. Well done. JG
