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The Hadleigh site
achieves a 90% recycling rate
The equivalent of over 13,000 containers of
rubbish was taken to Hadleigh Household
Waste Recycling Centre in September, but
instead of ending up in landfll, the majority
was re-used, recycled or composted. The
Hadleigh site is one of 11 centres run by
Waste Recycling Group (WRG), on behalf
of Suffolk County Council. Visitors are en-
couraged to separate their waste and recy-
cle as much as possible.
Lisa Chambers, portfolio holder for waste
with Suffolk County Council, said: “This is
an amazing achievement and the frst time
a Suffolk centre has reached such a high
recycling rate. I would like to thank those
visiting the site for taking the trouble to sort
their waste, and the staff for making sure
everything went in the right bins. It just
shows what can be achieved”.
“In today’s throw-away society, it is good to
see so much being re-used and recycled.
There are fnancial benefts too – if all of this
waste had gone to landfll, it would have
cost at least £20,000 in disposal costs.”
Mike Snell, Head of External Affairs for
WRG, commented: “Recycling centres
such as the one at Hadleigh are very im-
portant in helping everyone to extract the
maximum value from the resources that are
locked up in the waste that we all produ-
ce. The 90% recycling rate is a refection of
the real efforts people are making to divert
valuable resources from landfll. The exper-
tise we have in managing HWRCs led to
our introducing the changes we have made
to the service since taking over the Suffolk
contract, and we’re delighted that we have
exceeded the Council’s expectations.”
JUST over 90% of waste taken to a Sufolk centre was recycled last month - saving
over £20,000 in disposal costs.
Thrown-away fnd new homes all over the country and abroad. Re-useable items, in-
cluding bikes and furniture, are donated to local charities; garden waste is composted
locally, wood is turned into animal bedding while glass is either turned into new bottles
and jars or broken down into aggregates for road building.
Textiles, including clothes, shoes, bedding and even cuddly toys, are re-used where-
ver possible, but anything which is too stained or torn is shredded and used as rags
or as flling for mattresses and similar products.
Recycling rates at Suffolk’s other HWRCs for September were: Haverhill 75%; Leiston
77%; Lowestoft 78%; Mildenhall 79%; Sudbury and Ipswich 81%; Felixstowe 82%;
Stowmarket, Foxhall and Bury St Edmunds 85%.
This contributes signifcantly to Suffolk’s overall recycling rate for household waste,
which at over 50% is among the best in the country. The aim is 60% by 2015.
A signifcant contribution
WRG employees at the Hadleigh recycling
facilities help a citizen recycle garden waste.
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