Recycle for Easter

People in Wiltshire will be able to recycle for longer when the county’s Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) start their summer opening hours from April 1.

All ten HRCs will be open at least eight hours a day, every day, until October 31 (see below for exactdetails). They will also be open during Easter.

Easter falls early this year with Good Friday on March 21 and it is expected that the recycling centres will be busy with people starting on their spring cleaning. The bank holiday will also mean changes to the black box kerbside collection.

Wiltshire County Council waste services manager, Andy Conn, said: “There are more than two dozen different materials which can be recycled at our household recycling centres so it’s no wonder they can be very popular at peak times.

“We’ve listened to those residents who have asked for the chance to use the HRCs after they’ve finished work and still be able to avoid the busy weekend period. These increased hours will give them every opportunity to stop rubbish needlessly going into landfill.

“If you’ve got some spring cleaning planned for Easter then it might be easier to save a trip to the tip with your waste until after April 1.”

The kerbside collection of black boxes will operate as normal on Good Friday (March 21) but the following week every collection will be a day later. The one on Monday March 24 will take place on Tuesday March 25 and so on. The collection returns to normal on Monday March 31.

From April 1, eight of the HRCs will stay open until 7pm on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. and 5pm on other evenings The remaining two at Warminster and Salisbury will be open until 8pm every day.

The recycling centres take a wide range of materials from car batteries and cardboard to fluorescent light tubes, gas bottles, glass, green garden waste, metals, motor oil, and plastic bottles.

Textile banks at the HRCs are great places for your old clothes while recycling centres are just the place for rubble, timber and unused paints. They all now take chipboard and MDF.

The county’s ten HRCs are operated by the county council’s waste contractors Hills Group. They are at Amesbury, Compton Bassett, Devizes, Everleigh, Melksham, Purton, Trowbridge, Salisbury, Stanton St Quintin and Warminster.

For more information see www.recycleforwiltshire.com which also has a searchable calendar for black box collections or ring the Hills Waste Solutions helpline on 0845 603 2085.

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Notes to Editors:

For more information or to arrange an interview or photo opportunity please call Wiltshire County Council’s Communications Department on 01225 713114/5/6.

The Amesbury, Honeyball, Melksham, Purton, Stanton St Quintin, Trowbridge, Everleigh and Devizes Household Recycling Centres will be open for the following hours from April 1 – October 31. Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 5pm Wednesday and Thursday: 9am to 7pm.

The Warminster and Salisbury Household Recycling Centres will be open for the following hours from April 1 – October 31. Monday to Sunday: 9am to 8pm.

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