Plastic
Currently Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council doesn’t provide any plastic recycling facilities.
All plastic ends up in Dudley incinerator along with household waste and is burnt to provide some energy.
However there is a growing number of people interested in recycling plastic in Stourbridge and Dudley.
Plastic Recycling Update – 3rd May 2011
Plastic Bottle Recycling is now available at these sites:
- Sainsbury’s, Sandringham Way
- Stafford Street Car Park, Dudley
- Birmingham Street Car Park, Halesowen
- Morrisons Stallings Lane, Kingswinford
- Co-op, Halesowen Road, Quinton
- Co-op, High Holborn, Sedgley
- Birmingham Street (C.A. site), Stourbridge
- Church Street Car Park, Stourbridge
- Wordsley Green Car Park, Wordsley
Also See: Full List of Recycling Sites on Dudley Council Website
I lived in Falmouth, Cornwall for three years while at university . The council there recycled almost everything, the only waste that went in the normal bin was food waste. Most of the material that goes in my bin in Wordsley is cardboard and plastic and I hate filling my bin with it – I would much rather recycle it! What is stopping the council here from recycling plastic????
I know, its a terrible waste!
Currently 92% of all UK local authorities now offer some form of plastic bottle recycling, but not in Dudley or Stourbridge yet!
Though, apparently there will be a trail of plastic and cardboard kerbside recycling starting soon, I email Councillor David Stanley (cllr.david.stanley@dudley.gov.uk) today to find out more.
will keep you posted…
Proposed plastic bottle and cardboard recycling trial
Dudley Council are starting a kerbside plastic and cardboard recycling trial, with hope to roll this out borough-wide if the trial is a success. This is due to start in Autumn 2010.
Read More: Plastic bottle and cardboard trial collections