Household recycling centres in Shropshire will maintain their regular week-long opening hours for the next six months, a meeting has been told.
All of the authority’s five recycling centres are set to reduce their opening hours to six days per week as part of changes designed to reduce costs in the council’s recycling operation.will underwrite the costs of maintaining seven days per week opening for a period of six months while Shropshire Council gets its booking system up and running.
“Part of the rationale for the booking system is to squeeze out traders bringing materials that shouldn’t be there and there’s a thought that if that generates the quantum of savings anticipated then maybe we could keep all the sites open seven days a week. The issue was raised as part of a wide-ranging discussion on the council’s waste minimisation strategy, designed to reduce the amount of waste processed by Shropshire Council by around 20 per cent.
Longden Councillor Roger Evans described the council’s minimisation policy as “ill thought out” and “late in coming forward”, and said insufficient time had been allowed for proper scrutiny of the measures.
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