Glass recycling in Basingstoke moves ahead

2:00pm Friday 6th July 2012 in Local By Simon Moss

ALMOST all residents in Basingstoke and Deane can now leave bottles and jam jars outside their homes to get them recycled.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has rolled out the final phase of its kerbside glass collection scheme to homes in areas such as Beggarwood, Buckskin, Overton and Whitchurch.

Only those in extreme rural areas – where large trucks cannot get through – can’t yet take part in the scheme. However, by the end of July, a fleet of smaller vehicles will be in place, delivering blanket coverage across the borough.

Councillor Robert Donnell, Cabinet member for the environment and climate change, said: “The borough is going greener and we want to help people to recycle all they can by making it as easy for them as possible.

“Most homes in the borough now have glass recycling, and we are doing everything we can to bring it to everyone.

“As the average home uses over 3,000 bottles and jars a year, collecting glass for recycling means we are stopping the need to throw it away in the grey rubbish bins if you cannot get to a bottle bank.”

Households have been provided with a plastic tub to fill with glass bottles and jars, which will be collected by waste teams every other week.

It is hoped that the scheme, funded through a reorganisation of the borough’s waste contract, will help boost the borough’s ailing recycling rate, which is currently around 23 per cent – the lowest in Hampshire.

For more information about kerbside glass collection, call 01256 844844 or visit basingstoke. gov.uk/gov.uk/go/recycle.

Comments(17)

Pacifier says...
2:19pm Fri 6 Jul 12

Cllr Donnell sounds pretty smug..I have found that the bottle collection is very haphazard...Cllr Still seemed to have her finger on the pulse, people leave their piles of bottles outside my house for collection, stays out there for weeks...looks like I'm having endless parties or a drinking problem!! get a grip Donnell, sort it out!

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rufus_bolt says...
3:12pm Fri 6 Jul 12

Just wondering when Cllr Donnell will be getting the street cleaners round to sweep up all the broken glass, and if he would mind paying for my tyres that have now been punctured twice because of broken glass in the highway.

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Sam_Walker 123456 says...
6:40pm Fri 6 Jul 12

Kerbside glass recycling is convenient for me and presents no problems whatsoever. Thanks again, council.

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Beats108 says...
9:39am Sat 7 Jul 12

The two comments above moaning about the glass over flowing in there Glass Box, why don't you place it in a bag and then either walk or drive to your nearest bottle bank and dispose of it that way just because the council has provided us with this facility for it to be collected surely doesn't stop us making sure that they overflow waiting for them to collect I think it is called LAZINESS!!!!

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Pacifier says...
11:01am Sat 7 Jul 12

Beats108..you sound like a Tory Cllr...I call it being a partially disabled pensioner actually...you need to think before you make stupid ill considered comments!

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Beats108 says...
6:39pm Sun 8 Jul 12

Pacifier I hate the Tories, thanks to them after 12 solid years I was forced out my job and had to take a massive pay cut because of it!!!

Would like to know how you recycled your glass before the boxes came in then if you couldn't get to a glass bank??

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Opinions_opinions says...
2:56pm Mon 9 Jul 12

Agree with Sam Walker, I am pleased they are collecting the glass now. And if there is the odd piece of glass on the road when they have left, then pick it up and put it back in your green tray for next time. Surely this is a small price to pay for not having to go to the bottle bank all the time. I am all for the glass collections and the council (for once) should give themselves a pat on the back for sorting this out ...... eventually.

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rufus_bolt says...
4:52pm Mon 9 Jul 12

Nobody has to go to a bottle bank. We all have black bins, chuck it in there.

For God's sake - sick of hearing about these potty, stupid ideas from the recycling police.

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deepinsight says...
4:19pm Tue 10 Jul 12

Interesting to see what they do with the glass boxes:

1. Empty the grey bin.

2. Pick up the glass box.

3. Empty the glass box contents into the now empty grey bin.

4. Empty grey bin now full of glass into dustcart.

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rufus_bolt says...
4:57pm Tue 10 Jul 12

@deepinsight

I'm saving them a job then!

Mind you, I think you are spoiled where you live as step 2 has been missed twice in 6 weeks here.

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Beats108 says...
7:40am Wed 11 Jul 12

rufus_bolt

Its people like you by doing that makes our council tax go up as they are getting heavy fines for not doing there bit for recycling which made them bottom if the list for Hampshire and are you sure you put your green box out as they wont go looking for it if you have not put it out properly!!!

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Opinions_opinions says...
2:16pm Wed 11 Jul 12

deepinsight wrote:
Interesting to see what they do with the glass boxes: 1. Empty the grey bin. 2. Pick up the glass box. 3. Empty the glass box contents into the now empty grey bin. 4. Empty grey bin now full of glass into dustcart.
That may be how they are disposing of your glass in your area, but I can see there are two separate compartments in the truck when it comes around. Yes they empty the glass in to a larger wheelie bin, but that large wheelie bin is emptied on a separate hydraulic arm going into the truck. Check it next time and if they are emptying it into the general waste, ring the council and let them know. But I think you will find they are in fact doing it properly.

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rufus_bolt says...
10:10am Thu 12 Jul 12

I found the best thing to do was to 'recycle' the green box. Unfortunately I put it in the black bin, full of rubble, in error.

Oh well, I'll go to hell then......

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W Wallace says...
12:31pm Thu 12 Jul 12

Opinions Opinions. I have seen them emptying the green box into the green bin. Then the green bin is tipped. No separate compartments, why waste money on the boxes? I am more than able to put the glass into the green bin I have so there is no need for the box.

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kenilworth road resident says...
12:53pm Thu 12 Jul 12

I find it a lot easier to walk to the bottle bank....

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Beats108 says...
12:06am Fri 13 Jul 12

As the Green Bin is recycling which then goes to a specialist facility to be sorted out and if the glass is smashed then the whole thing is pointless as it is classed as contaminated and the recycling has to go and get burnt. This costs more of the tax payers money to do this and then the council gets a fine which we pay!!!!

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rufus_bolt says...
3:19pm Sat 14 Jul 12

The only glass worthy of recycling is a pint glass taken back to the bar for a refil.

If you want my bottles and jars, charge me a small deposit like you did 40 years ago. Back then kids would walk miles to get the 5p back, rather than smash them in the road.

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