St Lawrence lead the way in cardboard recycling plan

Saturday 4th April 2009, 2:59PM BST.

ST LAWRENCE have become the first parish to operate a kerbside recycling scheme which includes cardboard.

The parish’s scheme includes the collection – from specially designated boxes and bags given to households – of newspaper and magazines, metal packaging and plastic bottles.

They are the first parish to offer kerbside recycling of cardboard – at the moment Islanders who want cardboard recycled have to take it to banks in the Rue des Prés Trading Estate in St Saviour or Bellozanne recycling centre.

The collection in St Lawrence is taking place monthly when parishioners normally have their glass collection. Recycling officer John Rive welcomed the addition of cardboard for the first time to an Island kerbside recycling scheme.

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annie du feu

April 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Recycling is better than incinerating or landfills but Reusing is what governments should be promoting. Who remembers the old glass milk bottles? So little waste.

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Adrian

April 5, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Repair and reuse is my moto. All this in built obsolesence is a joke. The only people to gain are the businesses who make a killing on what is often rubbish as far as I am concerned. Consumerism will have to be curtailed if we want to save the planet for being buried under rubbish and toxic waste.

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