Wolverhampton marks Recycle Now Week
Released: 06 June 2007
This week 2 to 8 June is Recycle Now Week and Wolverhampton is marking the occasion by encouraging people to go green. The city’s Waste Partnership, made up of Wolverhampton City Council and private firm Enterprise, is doing its bit to encourage residents to recycle by launching an awareness campaign.
Calendars are being delivered to residents reminding them what items they can put out for recycling in their green bins and green boxes and the dates of their collections.
Council staff are also out and about this week promoting recycling and if people have any questions they are encouraged to approach the recycling crews who will do their best to help them.
Earlier this year, eight specially commissioned refuse vehicles were painted with a logo designed to encourage people to recycle. The bold image featuring a drinks can and the strapline ‘Hello, I’m the can, if you recycle me I’ll be your number one fan’ was created by nine-year-old Wolverhampton schoolgirl Hannah O’Malley. She was chosen out of hundreds of entries to a competition.
The judges were so impressed by the standard of entries that they also chose a runner-up. Ten-year-old Jake Aspray’s picture of a friendly monster spinning a tin can like a basketball and saying “yo man, recycle that can” is now being used promote sound environmental practices at the city’s two household waste and recycling centres.
Jake’s design has been put on the side of skips and vehicles at the two flagship council sites at Anchor Lane, Coseley and Shaw Road, Bushbury. Both sites have been rebranded as household waste and recycling centres as the city council attempts to move away from the traditional image of a place to just dispose of rubbish, to somewhere that people can use to recycle.
Residents are now encouraged to come to the centres and recycle all waste that is not collected at the kerbside. Almost all household waste can be recycled and there are facilities at both sites for the recycling of:
- Plastic Bottles
- Wood
- Metals
- Engine Oil
- Fridge/Freezers
- Vehicle Batteries
- Cardboard
- Garden Waste
- Books
- Textiles
- Shoes
- Tyres
- LPG Bottles
- Fluorescent Tubes
There is also the capacity to recycle paper, glass, cans and garden waste.
Regular users of the HWRCs will be aware that considerable investment has been put into the facilities to upgrade the sites over the last year. This has resulted in improved signage, including an information board showing the amount of material recycled at the sites each month.
The fencing, gates and on-site facilities have also all been improved and HWRC staff are now trained to ensure that they can answer any recycling questions a customer may have.
Councillor Pat Byrne, cabinet member for the environment, said: “Now, like never before recycling is something that people are keen to do to help the environment. Wolverhampton’s green boxes, bins and two household waste and recycling centres make it easy for people to dispose of all sorts of rubbish in an environmentally friendly way. With so much investment going into the service, there is every reason for people to take advantage of what we provide.”
Issued by the press office.