Calls for a food voucher reward scheme to act as an incentive to encourage people from disadvantaged backgrounds to recycle have been made to Glasgow City Council.
Glasgow’s GMB convenor Chris Mitchell says he is supportive of the local authority’s plans to improve recycling by delivering new bins to households this summer - part of a drive to stop people putting their rubbish in the wrong containers.
At a recent council meeting it was revealed that households failing to properly separate their recycling into the correct bins was costing the council an estimated £3 million a year and that the new system would make it easier for people to dispose of their rubbish properly.
