 Residents are to collect garden waste for the new recycling scheme |
Thousands of householders have pledged to collect garden waste as part of a recycling drive in Slough, Berkshire. More than 2,000 people have so far joined the new Green Waste Scheme, which aims to recycle things like vegetable peelings and grass clippings.
The waste will be collected from their doorsteps by the borough council.
Homes in the UK currently send most of their green waste to landfill sites, where experts have blamed it for an increase in the fly population.
Slough residents currently recycle just under 13% of their waste, a figure the council wants to increase to 22% this year and to 30% by 2010.
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