Successful recycling scheme to be extended

A PILOT scheme to collect recyclable material from outside people’s homes has proved so successful it’s to be extended throughout all of Co Cork next year.

On June 13 last, the county council decided to launch the pilot scheme in Ballincollig, Waterfall and Macroom. Collections for ordinary waste and recyclable waste were held on alternative weeks, and the results impressed council officials. It seems they also impressed householders.

Enda Kiernan, acting senior executive engineer, said the council had lost customers to private contractors who were operating both collection, but now they were coming back.