Ealing's green waste recycling rates on the up and up

The introduction of free pink sacks has sent recycling rates soaring with nearly 600% more green waste collected during December 2006 than in the previous year.

In December 2005 residents recycled 24 tonnes of green waste but this December that figure increased to 143 tonnes.

Free pink sacks were introduced last October, and garden waste is now collected fortnightly throughout the year, on the same day of the week as green box and food waste.

The pink sacks are available from all local libraries, Ealing Council’s Customer Service Centre, at Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, Ealing Broadway. Alternatively, sacks may be ordered over the phone from ECT Recycling on 020 8813 3193 / 3194.

If garden waste is not recycled, and instead sent to landfill sites along with normal household rubbish, it rots without air and creates methane, one of the main greenhouse gases.

Source: LBE Press release

Commercial waste recycling

Ealing Council is looking into ways to reduce commercial waste and provide incentives for recycling.

Following a survey of businesses on the Uxbridge Road, a trial waste paper recycling collection has been proposed. Also under consideration are suggestions for promoting waste reduction to commercial users, and adjustments to the costs at the Greenford depot.

Further information on this can be found on the Council website www.ealing.gov.uk

(search for “commercial waste recycling” for various reports).