Epping Forest removes can and plastic banks

Epping Forest District Council has removed all of its plastic and metal bring banks from recycling sites across the district.

According to the council, the number of residents using these two banks at household waste recycling sites accounted for just 0.04 per cent of all recycling content collected by the council, due to a ‘comprehensive’ kerbside collection service.

Ian Almond, Recycling Officer for Epping Forest District Council, told Resource that the reason for removing the bring sites was due to duplicating services.

“We’re going for reorganisation of all bring sites, and as we already do a pretty comprehensive co-mingled kerbside service that already collects materials such as plastic, cans, card, aerosols, etc, it was deemed that there was no real value to duplicating the services for these materials.

“So far, the can and plastic banks have been removed but other banks, for example, glass, textiles and Tetra Pak banks will remain for the moment. There have been proposals to replace the can and plastic banks with small WEEE banks, but that is yet to be decided.”

All can and plastic sites were removed at the end of November.