Waste and Recycling
Waste and Recycling News
26 August 2010
Recycling In The CommunitySouth Ayrshire Council is committed to recycling and people will now have an even greater opportunity to recycle thanks to the new set of Node banks located in bays at Sainsbury's in Prestwick.
19 July 2010
Second Clean Up Success For CouncilHot on the heels of the successful clean up at Smith Street in Ayr, South Ayrshire Council has scored another environmental hit thanks to a fly tipping blitz at Loudon Terrace, Ayr.
Bin Collection Calendar
You can find your bin collection day online including garden waste and blue bin
recycle waste. Go to Bin Collection Calendar.
About Waste and Recycling
Waste Management in Scotland is currently facing a period of radical change. Driven
by European Legislation and public expectation as well as pressing environmental
problems, we must find ways of reducing our dependence on landfill and moving towards
more sustainable methods of managing wastes.
South Ayrshire Council has decided to work towards achieving their recycling and
waste management targets with easy to use kerbside recycling services for household
and business waste. The Council is also working with North and East Ayrshire Councils
on a joint waste treatment project, which will enable the three Councils to meet
future landfill diversion targets.
Our current waste recycling services in South Ayrshire include:
- Separate Collections of Glass using wheeled bins or boxes
- Separate collections for paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and cans
- Separate collections for garden waste
The glass and co-mingled collections of paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and cans
are sent to a recycling plant and recycled.
The garden waste is sent to a composting plant and processed into compost for use
as a soil conditioner.
South Ayrshire Council achieved an overall recycling rate of 43% in the year 2007/08,
which was the second highest recycling rate of all the Councils in Scotland. This
was an excellent achievement, but increasingly more challenging recycling rates
in future years mean that all members of the community must remember to Reduce,
Reuse and Recycle their waste wherever possible.