New recycling centre for Bolsover

25 January 2008

Making good use of rubbish should be even easier for people living in and around Bolsover when Derbyshire County Council opens its new household waste recycling centre on Monday 28 January 2008.

Based on the former Coalite site off the A632, the new £600,000 centre will make life much easier for local people who want to recycle rubbish not covered by their doorstep collections.

The county already has six household waste recycling centres at Loscoe near Heanor, Ilkeston, Chesterfield, Glossop, Ashbourne and Newhall near Swadlincote.

These sites receive more than 55,000 visits from people who stop by to use the facilities every year.

The new centre, on Buttermilk Lane, will be able to handle more than 5,000 tonnes of rubbish a year from the Shirebrook and Bolsover area which will be separated and where possible reused, recycled or composted.

People will be able to take a range of different items to the site including furniture, electrical appliances, carpets fridges and freezers.

They also accept paper, cardboard, glass jars, engine oil, batteries, excess bin waste and up to 50kg of rubble and soil.

Derbyshire County Council’s cabinet member for environmental services councillor Brian Lucas said: “People asked us for more recycling facilities and we listened.

“This new recycling centre will give people in and around Bolsover a really useful facility on their doorsteps.

“At the moment we recycle and compost 32 per cent of our rubbish in Derbyshire. But we need to do more if we are to avoid landfill fines which would mean a rise in the council tax we all pay.

“This new centre is another step towards boosting our recycling rate further.”

H W Martins Ltd based in Alfreton will manage the centre on behalf of the county council. It will be open 8.30am until 6pm every day of the year except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

The centre is a split-level site which means the public are separated from the skips and working area.

(Ref: JM.27.08)

Making good use of rubbish should be even easier for people living in and around Bolsover when Derbyshire County Council opens its new household waste recycling centre on Monday 28 January 2008.

Based on the former Coalite site off the A632, the new £600,000 centre will make life much easier for local people who want to recycle rubbish not covered by their doorstep collections.

The county already has six household waste recycling centres at Loscoe near Heanor, Ilkeston, Chesterfield, Glossop, Ashbourne and Newhall near Swadlincote.

These sites receive more than 55,000 visits from people who stop by to use the facilities every year.

The new centre, on Buttermilk Lane, will be able to handle more than 5,000 tonnes of rubbish a year from the Shirebrook and Bolsover area which will be separated and where possible reused, recycled or composted.

People will be able to take a range of different items to the site including furniture, electrical appliances, carpets fridges and freezers.

They also accept paper, cardboard, glass jars, engine oil, batteries, excess bin waste and up to 50kg of rubble and soil.

Derbyshire County Council’s cabinet member for environmental services councillor Brian Lucas said: “People asked us for more recycling facilities and we listened.

“This new recycling centre will give people in and around Bolsover a really useful facility on their doorsteps.

“At the moment we recycle and compost 32 per cent of our rubbish in Derbyshire. But we need to do more if we are to avoid landfill fines which would mean a rise in the council tax we all pay.

“This new centre is another step towards boosting our recycling rate further.”

H W Martins Ltd based in Alfreton will manage the centre on behalf of the county council. It will be open 8.30am until 6pm every day of the year except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

The centre is a split-level site which means the public are separated from the skips and working area.

(Ref: JM.27.08)

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