Cheltenham's recycling depot set for big changes
Cheltenham's recycling centre in Swindon Road is set for big changes over the coming weeks.
The public recycling centre will move to a new home on the site to make space for Printwaste, the company which deals with the majority of the council's recyclables. The firm hopes to be operating from the site from April 12.
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New access roads are being built, engineering works are being carried out to the recycling centre shed and surrounding areas and work will also take place to prepare the outdoor space where the new recycling centre will be.
When completed recycled waste will be taken to the Swindon Road depot instead of Wingmoor Farm, reducing the number of council lorries carrying waste through residential areas around Swindon Village and Evesham road. It's hoped the changes will help reduce the council's carbon footprint by 68 tonnes per year, saving £27,000 annually.
Beth Boughton, the council's waste and recycling manager, said: "These changes will bring so many benefits including reducing carbon emissions and increasing the efficiency of our recycling vehicles, making better use of the space within the depot and giving more control over the recycling process.
"We appreciate the work will be a bit disruptive but we'd like to ask customers to be patient over the next six weeks."
Councillor Roger Whyborn, cabinet member for sustainability at the borough council, added: "The changes are essential in order to benefit the environment as well as result in financial savings. We're committed to reducing the amount of landfill and encouraging recycling. The changes at the depot will improve traffic flow and increase the range of materials collected for recycling including extending our kerbside collections to include plastic bottles."
4 Comments
by MWD, Cheltenham
Friday, March 19 2010, 10:00AM
“This is another example of this council wasting taxpayers¿ money now in order to handle recycling. What was wrong with the old system?
CBC says these changes are all about reducing its carbon footprint, well I see it as being something quite different.
They have used taxpayers¿ money to compete with private enterprise now in Bishops Cleeve who had adequate free capacity to cope with this recycling. Now CBC having set it up here in Cheltenham has now brought in Printsave to run it, on the cheap I might add and at our expense, creating unnecessary competition, and weakening job prospects for the employees at the Bishops Cleeve¿s business
There has been no consultation with the public, living close to this site to bring in these changes or any Environment Study conducted to prove anything, it is being bulldozed through by telling the public what they want us to believe rather than the true facts,.
I see it more about providing jobs for the boys of which could be under threat at this time in order to provide their job security, and nipping it in before the outcome of the close elections which could make it impossible to do this, which has happened several times before and not many years ago.
CBC says it is in order to reduce its carbon footprint by reducing the number of HGVs going through Swindon Village. They are saying this off the top of their heads of course without any evidence to prove anything. As I see it they can¿t handle Finance, Planning, Health and Safety matters, Court Procedures and costs and neither can they handle Environment Issues. Well I hope the residents in Swindon Village are not duped into believing these promises because CBC makes no mention of the fact that more HGVs will be coming from other councils, bringing in their waste besides that of Cheltenham¿s, and it could be as many as 40 extra HGVs a day - but as usual Cheltenham Taxpayers are having no say in the matter.”
by Paul, Cheltenham
Thursday, March 18 2010, 6:11PM
“Rachael, have a look at the relevant websites.”
by Rachael, Up Hatherley
Wednesday, March 17 2010, 5:17PM
“It would be great to have signs along the road into the centre showing all the things that can be recycled there. Then when sitting in the queue, people can see how much can be taken there that they may not have known about eg fluroescent tubes.”
by No to incineration in, Gloucestershire
Wednesday, March 17 2010, 4:02PM
“Don't let the Tories get their hands on it!
They want to burn the lot and dump the toxic ash at Wingmoor Farm (and probably sprinkle some along the roads on the routes to it as well).”