County residents behind new recycling scheme

Herefordshire Council’s new recycling scheme is being actively used by 99 per cent of residents in the county, according to respondents in the 20^th Herefordshire Voice survey.
Key findings from the survey were that 99 per cent recycled a lot or everything that can be recycled while 98 per cent said recycling was either fairly or very important to them personally.
It was also found that 89 per cent of respondents had produced less black bag rubbish, 91 per cent said the service was either good or very good and 80 per cent felt the new recycling service was better than the previous one.
Councillor John Jarvis, Herefordshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Strategic Housing, said: “I am delighted that so many people have embraced recycling and it is important to them.
“I am also pleased with the huge reduction in black sack rubbish because this is significantly reducing the amount of household waste we send to landfill.

“Recently, a group of councillors visited Envirosort at Norton where we take all of the recyclable materials to be sorted and converted into useful products and they were very impressed with the hi-tech facility.
“We have already seen our recycling rates rise to 38 per cent of waste and are on course to meet our target of 40 per cent by the end of the year.

“I would like to thank all residents for supporting the new scheme and helping us to meet and hopefully exceed these challenging targets. If I could also remind residents to ensure items for recycling are clean, loose and dry. People are asked not to put plastic bags or films in with their recycling and also keep any paper or card flat,” he added.