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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Unique recycling scheme launched

Residents living in St Edmundsbury will soon be able to recycle old batteries alongside their blue bin waste as part of a unique scheme to be trialled in the borough.

From April, people who live in St Edmundsbury will be given a container which can be filled with old batteries and hung from the handle of their blue bin on collection day. The trial, which was approved last night by the council’s Cabinet, is the first of its kind in the country and will run until March 2008.

The borough council was approached to take part in the experiment by the Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP) after the UK, along with other EU member states, was set a target to recycle 25% of portable batteries by September 2012. The cost of the scheme will be met by WRAP.

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