Householders in Windermere and the surrounding area are being alerted to an upcoming change of recycling provision in the area.
Booths supermarket car park has hosted recycling banks for card, paper and plastic since the store was opened in 1986 – but there will be no recycling facilities there after September 30.
Booths has given notice that the company requires the area back for its original intention as parking spaces.
The majority of items which could be recycled at Booths can also be recycled kerbside in people’s household blue bins and boxes, the council said.
Blue bags are for:
- plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
- shampoo, toiletry and detergent bottles
- food trays and fruit punnets
- steel and aluminium cans, food tins and clean aluminium foil
- jar and bottle tops
Paper and cardboard boxes are for:
- newspapers and magazines
- junk mail and leaflets,
- greetings cards,
- white office paper
- brochures and soft-back catalogues
- telephone directories
- envelopes
- wrapping paper
- flattened card and other food boxes
- flattened cardboard packaging and corrugated cardboard
The second blue box is for glass bottles and jars – not sheet glass, broken glass or lightbulbs and people can request extra blue bags or boxes if required.
Recycling banks around the district are for domestic recycling and are designed to be used for materials that will fit through the slots provided.
Larger items should be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Businesses, including holiday lets and bed and breakfasts, are reminded by the council that they should make provision for the collection of their recycling through a trade waste contractor.
There is a recycling site in Windermere at Broad Street, and also a household waste recycling centre at Rothay Holme, Ambleside, which is open seven days a week from 8am to 6pm.
