AS RECYCLING hits an all-time high, people in Renfrewshire are clearly making great efforts to cut their carbon footprint.
Residents across the area are now recycling and composting more than 30 per cent of their household waste.
But national recycling targets will demand 40 % by 2010, and 50 % by 2013.
So locals have asked the council to set up a more sophisticate
d, extended kerbside collection of additional recyclables.
From November householders will be able to separate more types of plastics and drinks cartons, plus paper and textiles -- in addition to cardboard, paper, cans and tins.
However the existing weekly collection of normal domestic waste collection in grey and blue bins will switch to fortnightly, alternately.
And glass will be collected on a four-week cycle.
All households will be given a new blue wheeled bin and the current blue and green boxes will be used for glass.
Full-time mum Lucy Granger (25) from Glenburn said it's "about time" a system like this was introduced.
She told The Extra: "We have a lot of baby products to be recycled, like clothes my son has outgrown and jars and packaging.
"It's difficult to recycle it all in one go when you have young ones, so this collection will be ideal for people like me".
Student Gary Harlow (20) lives with friends in the town centre, and thinks the new system "sounds great".
He told The Extra: "We've quite a tidy flat but have lots of recycling lying around because, to be honest, we're too lazy to trawl to a recycling point very often".
He joked: "The glass collection will be brilliant after parties".
But Iain Menzies (68) from Foxbar is not enthusiastic about having so many bins.
He told The Extra: "I only have a small garden and I live myself. I support the idea, but it will look cluttered and people of my age will find it hard to move things.
"I'm also not pleased about the fortnightly uplift".
New service details will come through the post, and new bins delivered during the next two months and the result should be a noticeably lesser amount being sent to costly landfill.
A RECYCLING info roadshow will visit local communities from October 6 until November 7. If you'd like it to include your neighbourhood call the Greener Renfrewshire hotline on 842 4448.
Find out more at www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/recycling.
