LETTER – Powys must adapt to make recycling savings

Powys has a high score for recycling but Rattus thinks it ridiculous to collect plastic, paper and cans from all properties in Powys every week.

Rattus has often advocated reuse and has praised the refillable milk bottle vending machines by Daisy Bank Dairies at Tuffins in Welshpool.

The new Tri Dyffryn Siop in Llanfyllin has only been open six months and now refills over a 100 bottles a week with milk and juice. The public love it. The milk is organic and you just swap your washed empties for filled bottles.

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Washing up and toilet cleaner bottles and the bulk containers are almost always reused. If this was rolled out over Powys then the recycling costs would be lower. If the supermarkets found they were losing business they might actually change.

Rattus thinks Powys County Council should stop collecting recycling every week and suggest people reuse and refill instead. They could provide car park recycling units for cans and bottles for the overflow and make sure every supermarket had some.

Food waste is more difficult. Bulk composting does produce a valuable organic fertiliser. In an era when horticultural peat is banned, then there must be an economic way processing it into a saleable product.

However, It does not want to be transported miles and a local solution is called for.

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