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Housing trust to expand recycling
11:45am Friday 18th July 2008
Tenants of former council flats in Keighley are set to go green.
About 1,000 residents will be given boxes in the next few weeks to collect items for recycling.
The scheme is being offered to tenants of Incommunities, the former Aire-Wharfe Community Housing Trust.
The trust has teamed up with Aire Valley Recycling, which already collects recyclable waste from many local homes.
Two vehicles are being adapted for the collections thanks to a £30,000 grant from the BCHT Foundation, Incommunities' charitable arm.
A pilot scheme ran in Keighley at the Kennedy House high-rise block and the sheltered scheme at Farish House, where more than 80 per cent of tenants took part.
The first areas will include Evergreen Walk at Crossflatts, where bags and boxes will be delivered ready for fortnightly collections. Silsden will also be on the route.
Residents will be able to recycle newspapers, magazines, junk mail, drink cartons, glass and plastic bottles, jars, cans and clothes.
Richard Ayrton, from Incommunities, said he was excited about expanding the scheme.
He said: "It means hundreds of our customers will soon be able to put out their old newspapers, glass bottles, jars and cans for recycling. Staff are already talking to our customers about how the service will work."
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CillaDrennan, Keighley says...
2:35pm Fri 18 Jul 08
I know there are many residents who are living in the flats and until now the recycling plan was not available to them, but residents in your other housing estate would like to join in with the recycling effort. I currently recycle all my paper, tins and glass but unfortunally I am unable to recycle the plastic; which is around 60% of the waste that I have to throw out, as their is no system in place for us.