RECYCLING
The household recycling rate for the Ards Borough currently stands at 40.58% for the year 2010/2011. This compares very favourably with the Northern Ireland total recycling rate which stands at just under 42%.
However, with ever tougher targets to meet (the current Strategic Waste Review has adopted a possible figure of 60% as the recycling target) and rising landfill costs, the introduction and development of recycling schemes and increasing the quality and accessibility of recycling within the Borough are more vital than ever.
As well as the two Kerbside Recycling Schemes - blue bins for dry recyclables (paper, plastic bottles, tins and so on) and brown bins for food and garden waste, we continue to provide extensive facilities at our 7 Waste Recycling Centres for recycling a range of materials.
Ards also has 32 bring sites consisting of glass bottle banks, with some sites having additional banks for textiles.
The 'bring' site locations are:
- Main Road Car Park, Cloughy
- Comber Leisure Centre, Enler Car Park, Comber
- Village Hall, Newtownards Road, Greyabbey
- Lisbarnett House, Killinchy Road, Lisbane
- Londonderry Park Playing Fields, Newtownards
- Spar garage, Donaghadee Road, Newtownards
- Killinchy Community Centre, Beechvale Road
- The Roundabout Bar, The Square, Ballygowan
- Whiterock Picnic Site, Ballydorn Road
- Parkway, Killinchy Street, Comber
- West Winds Community Centre, Newtownards
- Donaghadee Rugby Club, Newtownards Road
- Crommelin Park, Moat Street, Donaghadee
- Harbour Car Park, Main Street, Ballywalter
- Centra Stores, High Street, Ballyhalbert
- Anchor Car Park, Springfield Road, Portavogie
- Portavogie Community Centre, New Harbour Road
- Saltwater Brig Public House, Kircubbin
- Kircubbin Community Centre, Boyd Avenue
- Cloughey Road Playing Fields, Portaferry
- Chestnut Inn, Ballygowan
- Sandycove Holiday Homes, Ballywalter (5 sites)
- Mountstewart Estate, Newtownards
- Tower Service Station, Scrabo Road, N'ards
- The Pub, Bar and Restaurant, Newtownards
- Cuan Place, Scrabo Estate, Newtownards
- Donaghadee Garden Centre, Stockbridge Road
- Tesco, Castlebawn development, Newtownards
Contact Clive Catterson, Waste Awareness Officer, Tel: 028 9182 4024, E: clive.catterson@ards-council.gov.uk
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