Stratford District residents in top 10 recycling league

Residents in Stratford-on-Avon District are some of the best recyclers in England, according to the latest Government figures released.

Stratford-on-Avon District Council has maintained its position in the top ten Councils for recycling and composting for the second year with a recycling rate of 59.06% for 2013/14.

This puts the District Council in 8^th out of a total of 352 Councils.

Cllr Mike Brain, Technical Services Portfolio says: “This is great news and it's thanks to our residents that we've been able to achieve this result with their commitment and support for recycling.  The service we provide is designed to make recycling easy and our residents have responded to that by ensuring they recycle as much rubbish as possible and by limiting the amount of other waste that is produced.

It is important that residents continue to recycle and one of the reasons why we are performing so high is because more residents are regularly putting food in the green bin and the weekly collection of electric/electronic goods, textiles and batteries is still proving very popular.  Residents can see that their efforts and diligence has paid off." 

For a reminder about the District Council recycling service visit - https://www.stratford.gov.uk/community/recycling-collection.cfm and for garden and food waste visit - https://www.stratford.gov.uk/community/garden-and-food-waste-collection.cfm