Reading council is handing out thousands of new wheeled bins to residents as part of an £800,000 switch to alternate weekly collections.

A weekly kerbside box service for the recycling of paper, card, plastic and cans will turn into a fortnightly system from October, using red wheeled bins supplied by Telford firm Plastic Omnium.

Residual waste will be collected fortnightly as well, alternating with the recycling collections.

Steve Waite, lead councillor for the environment at Reading, said: “Recycling rates in some places have almost doubled after introducing alternate weekly collections.”

Published in Resource Manangement and Recovery, 25th August 2006

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