£30,000 to expand business recycling scheme (15 Mar 2010)
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council has been awarded £30,000 to help expand its recycling service for businesses.
The funding, from the Business Resource Efficiency & Waste (BREW) Centre for Local Authorities, has been used to purchase more recycling bins to meet the growing demand for the new service and to promote the scheme to encourage more businesses to sign up to recycle their paper and card.
Welcome boost
Cllr Julian Ellacott, Executive Member for Environment, said: “The business recycling service has proved very popular since it launched last summer, with new businesses signing up all the time. This funding provides a welcome boost which will enable us to expand the capacity of the service.
Cheaper to recycle
“By recycling their paper and cardboard waste businesses can significantly reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill and potentially save money on their overall waste disposal costs.
"The advantage of the service is that it costs 20 per cent less than the Council’s normal business waste collection service - it really does cost less to recycle than to just throw things away."
“We intend to extend the service to collect other recyclable materials in the near future.”
Sign up
More information and an application form to sign up to the scheme are available on the business refuse and recycling service page.
Alternatively contact the Council’s Help Line on 01737 276000 or email: customer.services@reigate-banstead.gov.uk.
Support
The BREW Centre provide support to local authorities working with their business communities to help them improve the management of their waste, recycle more and be more resource efficient.
They are a consortium made up of the Local Government Association, the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, the West Midlands Regional Assembly and Oxfordshire County Council and are funded by Defra.
Last updated : 15/03/2010
