Cartons and Tetra Pak will no longer be taken at Somerset recycling sites from mid-June, thanks to the success of kerbside collections.
All 12 of the 16 sites which currently take these items – commonly used for liquids such as juice – will stop accepting them from Monday 12th June. The move is down to the huge success of Recycle More expanded collections which mean cartons are collected from the kerb every week with the rest of the recycling.
The new service has seen the number of cartons recycled more than double and the volume of cartons being received at recycling sites has reduced dramatically, making it no longer viable to collect cartons on site.
Last year Somerset recycled close to ten tonnes of cartons each month, with less than 500 kilograms having been collected across the recycling sites. Somerset Council makes more than 350,000 collections a week, and more than 90% of the recycling that is collected stays in the UK.
To find your local recycling site or download your collection calendar visit: somerset.gov.uk/waste.
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