Merseyside offers recycling incentive

26 July 2010, source lawr

Merseyside's bag giveaway scheme has proved popular in the past

Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) has launched a scheme with Veolia Environmental Services, through which waste officers will be giving away heavy-duty, green-waste recycling bags to local residents at the Kirkby and Otterspool household waste recycling centres (HWRCs).

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To claim a bag, residents have to drop off a load of green and garden waste at one of the recycling centres, where they will receive a stamped voucher. If they drop off a second load during August and get their voucher stamped a second time, they will be able to take a free bag.

The scheme will operate throughout August at Kirkby and Otterspool and will move to Formby and Southport in September. It has already run successfully at Newton-le-Willows and West Kirby during July, where around 500 bags have been given away.

Carl Beer, director of MWDA, said: "We ran a giveaway scheme a few years ago and it was very popular - in fact we shifted around 20,000 bags. And our regular compost giveaways are always enthusiastically received by the public, so we know there is an appetite for recycling habits to be rewarded."

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