A roll-out of green recycling bins across West Lothian is continuing in spite of delays, with councillors keen to promote the positive impact after negative online comments from some householders.
The new bins will enable the council to promote more recycling, having dropped from its previous record highs of 65% which ranked it one of the best performing local authorities in Scotland. The current rate is around 45% of all waste recycled.
The blue recycling bins will now only take paper and cardboard. Green bins are for clean empty, dry plastic and tins. Clean, empty and dry are the key words here - food and liquid contamination are the main problems facing the council when collecting recycling waste. Such contamination can spread through an entire lorry full of waste and the lot has to go to landfill or energy from waste processing.
