ILMINSTER NEWS: New Year’s Eve recycle choice for Ilminster

RESIDENTS in Ilminster have a choice of recycling collection for their paper and card on New Year’s Eve (Saturday, December 31, 2016) and are being urged to make their choice clear.

On New Year’s Eve, both Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) and Ilminster’s Gemini Carnival Club will be collecting paper and card.

To avoid confusion, Gemini and SWP are advising anyone wanting to donate paper and card to the club to put it out clearly labelled “Gemini”.

On Saturday rather than their regular Friday, due to Christmas, residents will have their weekly SWP collection of a dozen or so materials, including food waste, cans, aerosols, and textiles.

Gemini Carnival Club will also be out on one of its frequent collection of paper and card, and will urge its supporters to clearly label their paper and card “Gemini”.

As ever, SWP wants residents to sort and segregate materials, and to have their recycling boxes and food waste bin out by 7am on Saturday (December 31, 2016) and weighed down if the weather is windy.

Paper goes in one box, with glass bottles and foil, while card goes in the other, with cans, plastic bottles and aerosols.

Extra card should be flattened and put under or alongside the recycling boxes; more than the equivalent of two recycling boxes of card should be put out over time or taken to a recycling site.

All recycling sites are on their usual schedules, including all of them closing for New Year’s Day on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

A SWP spokesperson said: “We will collect all materials from our containers as usual. Gemini will not be collecting any materials from our containers.

“Gemini is asking anyone wanting to donate to ensure their paper or card is clearly marked with the Gemini name and put it out separately from their SWP boxes.”

PHOTO - TOP: If you want your cardboard and newspaper recycled by Gemini Carnival Club make sure it is labelled for the club or if you don't - just put it in the Somerset Waste Partnership recycling box.

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