Towns set for 'flexible plastic' recycling scheme
According to a report by DEFRA, British households create more than 26 million tonnes of waste each year, the weight of around 260 large cruise shipsRecycling for plastic bags and wrappers could be coming to thousands of homes as part of a £200,000 trial.
People will be able to recycle previously unrecycled materials including sweet wrappers, bubble wrap, and cling film.Councillors from Reading, Bracknell Forest and Wokingham Borough councils are expected to vote on whether to approve the scheme on 15 June.The new recycling scheme is part of a national research trial run by the FlexCollect project, a £2.9m pilot that recycles flexible plastic packaging across the UK, and supported by the government.
Rubbish collectors will then separate the blue recycling bags and send them off to a national processing centre. The project will also come with £200,000 worth of funding to cover the costs of implementing the scheme.
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