Hackney Council have revamped their system for collecting recycling, replacing existing green boxes with green sacks in a bid to benefit an extra 14,000 households.
The move will allow those in shared-street housing, low-rise estates and flats above shops to use the Council’s recycling services for the first time.
From Friday, Hackney residents will put their waste paper, plastic, cardboard, tin cans, glass and aerosols into green sacks, which will be collected and sorted by machines at the borough’s recycling facility in Bow.
Since 2003, Hackney’s recycling scheme has used green boxes for the collection of recycling, but many residents were exempt from the scheme due to the boxes being unsuitably bulky for their homes.
Councillor Feryal Demirci, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said the decade-old green box scheme was in need of “fresh thinking” if the borough is to meet its target of recycling half of all household waste by 2020.
Hackney currently recycles 25 per cent of its household waste but the Council are hopeful for an increase to 34 per cent by 2020 with the help of this new scheme.
Cazenove Ward trialled the scheme in 2011. According to a survey run by Hackney Council, over two-thirds of residents thought the new system made recycling collections quicker and easier.
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You came around peolples houese and said no more box recycling. we said. You said you would drop greens bags for use. WERE ARE THE GREEN BAGS, ITS ALL GOOD NO MORE RECYCLING FOR ME BRILLANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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