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Appeal for recycling volunteers |
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Sunday, 26 February 2006 |
Volunteers are being sought to help a community improve its recycling record ever further.
The recycling point serving the two villages of Garmouth and Kingston is among the best used in Moray.
The local amenities committee has gone so far as to set up a recycling group to spearhead the villages’ efforts.
The group’s latest initiative is to recruit volunteers to help those such as pensioners and the disabled who are unable to visit the recycling point, which has facilities for disposing of bottles, cans, textiles, paper and cardboard.
Volunteers would collect recyclable material from people’s homes on a regular basis and take it to the recycling point.
Leaflets have been distributed to every home in the villages to gauge interest in the proposal.
A questionnaire invites those who would like to have their recyclables collected to put their names forward.
It also asks for volunteers willing to carry out the collections.
Recycling group chairperson Chris Mackie said the scheme would only operate if there was sufficient interest from users and volunteers.
She said that although the villages’ recycling point was a huge success in terms of the volume of materials it received, there were people who were unable to access the facility because they were elderly, infirm or did not have transport.
“The exact details of how the scheme will operate will be considered once we have established if there is enough interest to get it started,” said Miss Mackie.
Raymond Shewan P&J
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 April 2006 )
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