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BBC News
28-07-2025
- Automotive
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Recycling in Douglas at all time high, city council says
Recycling in the Isle of Man's capital is at an "all time high" resulting in the need for a larger refuse vehicle, the city council has said. The local authority in Douglas said there was a "significant rise" in the rate to 28% last year. A new "kerbsider" vehicle has replaced the council's refuse collection truck, and it is set to collect up to five different types of waste.A council spokesman said the rise in people taking up recycling reflected a "growing community-wide commitment to sustainability". The new vehicle, set to manage the rise in material collected "more efficiently", will also "help divert more waste from the Energy from Waste plant", he explained. Douglas Council moved refuse collections to once every two weeks in 2022, alongside a fortnightly kerbside collection authority reported in 2023 that the change to fortnightly meant recycling rates went from 5% to 20% - a figure that has now risen to 28%.Councillor Falk Horning said the new vehicle would help them to "better service the community's increasing recycling efforts".He said it was a "vital step in our ongoing mission to reduce residual waste, lower disposal costs and capture more valuable materials that can be recycled".The new vehicle, already in operation in the council's fleet, is expected to "make a noticeable impact", he added. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
BBC News
07-03-2025
- BBC News
Douglas Council warning over knives in kerbside recycling boxes
A local authority has asked residents not to put sharp items in their recycling boxes to "keep staff safe".Douglas Council has confirmed knives have been found in kerbside collection boxes, which should have been disposed of in the metal bin at the civic amenity of the council's Environmental Services Committee Falk Horning said broken glass and needles had also been found, which could also injure he said he believed "people had been trying to do the right thing by recycling their rubbish" and it was an "uncommon occurrence". A kerbside collection service for many residents in the Manx capital was first introduced in told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that while protective gloves were worn, those tasked with sorting recycled items by hand were "in danger of getting cut", which meant "total protection" could not be given."It was "really important" that staff faced that danger "as little as possible", he councillor said the team were on "very tight time schedule" to sort through boxes once they had been collected and had to "act fast" so "we can't have any sharp objects" also said if broken glass was been left in a box, it could not be processed with the contents put in a rubbish said the households that had left the items out "probably had the best intentions" and "wanted to recycle as much as possible", but the council needed to "ensure the safety of its staff ". Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
