Cartons can be recycled too

Added: 19/03/2008
Category: NNDC

North Norfolk people can recycle paper-based food and drink cartons using new ‘bring’ banks in Cromer and North Walsham.

The new facilities will enable North Norfolk District Council to improve on its already impressive 45% rate for recycling household waste — one of the best recycling rates in the country, and second-highest in Norfolk.

The bring banks are provided and emptied by Tetra Pak, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of paper-based cartons, at no cost to North Norfolk council taxpayers. They will be situated in public areas at the Rainbow supermarket in Cromer and the Sainsbury’s supermarket in North Walsham. The banks are now in place.

North Norfolk District Council does not currently collect these cartons for recycling through its Twin Bins household waste scheme, though carton recycling is possible at the four Norfolk County Council household waste recycling centres in North Norfolk, at Aylmerton, Hempton, Wells-next-the-Sea and Worstead.

Councillor Brian Hannah, Cabinet Member for Waste and Recycling, said: “We’re delighted that Tetra Pak is committed to the recycling of the products it makes, helping us all to tackle the ever-present problem of what to do with our waste. Sending rubbish to landfill is a vast expense for taxpayers, as well as being hugely damaging to our precious environment, so the more we recycle, the better.

“North Norfolk people understand this, and recycle almost half of what they throw away. We’re grateful to them for their dedication, and we are always looking for ways to make it easier for them to recycle even more.”