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SEA says blue bins must be used properly to avoid incinerator

Thursday 19th November 2004

Complaints in last Friday's Journal about gray bins overflowing while the blue bins are half empty suggests that people have not been properly informed about the importance of recycling, according to the Socialist Environmental Alliance.

  "The blue bins were introduced after a hard-won fight by environmentalists in the city", says SEA spokesperson Andrew Cuthbert. "There was a choice: incineration or recycling. The blue bin was provided in order to increase the amount of recycling in Derry and, he says "if your blue bin is half empty and your gray one overflowing, it means you're not recycling all you can."

  "The blue bin can be used for all manner of plastics, such as bottles cartons, packaging and other items, all you need to do is wash out the item in question and place it in the blue bin for recycling rather than throwing it away as every day waste.

  "The bin also takes paper, as such old newspapers and cardboard boxes, giving you the chance to free up your old black bin for other items not yet being recycled.

  "Metal including drinks and food cans, as well as other waste metal products are all apt to be recycled, again all needs done is a quick rinse.

  "If our blue bins were being used properly then it is more than likely than we would need it emptied more often than our black bins, given current trends in the items we class as household waste" says the SEA's Andrew Cuthbert.

  The message is that if we don't use our bins properly then landfill costs will continue to rise and the possibility of an incinerator being built in the city will be back on the agenda.





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