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By DAN CARRIER
 
Greens stay cool on plastic recycling plan

PLASTIC bottles and cardboard boxes will be collected from your front door in a new recycling scheme from next week.
From Monday, householders will be able to put out cardboard and plastic bottles into their green boxes – along with newspapers, cans and glass.
But revelations that the plastic could be sorted into bales and then sent to the Far East to be turned into more plastic goods have been met with criticism by Camden’s Green Party.
Spokesperson Sian Berry welcomed the plan – but called for an enquiry into the cost and environmental savings the new scheme will have.
She said: “It is a step forward from chucking it in the bin – but it is another contract with a waste management company based in Kent, and that means there has to be a big question mark as to the environmental cost of carrying the bottles there, and where the recycled plastic goes afterwards. There is a need for an audit over the effectiveness of these schemes.
Lib-Dem leader councillor Keith Moffitt. He said: “We will not support the scheme until there has been a full environmental audit on the costs involved.”
The Town Hall has bought a fleet of new seven-tonne trucks to carry the extra rubbish.
It will be driven to a Kent depot run by rubbish specialists Grovesnor Waste Management, where it will be sorted. They already deal with Camden’s refuse under a five-borough contract with the North London Waste Authority.
A spokesman for Grovesnor Waste Company admitted that the final destination for much of Camden’s recycled bottles could be factories in the Far East – but added there were plans for a new recycling plant to be open by April in London that would be able to use the plastic.
They said: “There is a market in the Far East for type of raw material but more companies closer to home are now using recycled plastics.”
Executive member for the environment Councillor John Thane said: “Currently Camden is the best borough in London for it’s recycling rates and when we questioned residents they said overwhelmingly they wanted the be able to recycle plastic and cardboard too. This will help cut down on rubbish dumped in landfill sites.”
 
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