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Mr Patrick Boyle, Warrenpoint was chosen as Christmas 2013 Recycler of the Month. The competition, which is sponsored by the Department of the Environment’s Rethink Waste campaign in partnership with Newry and Mourne District Council, awards £50 to householders who use their recycling bins correctly.
Patrick’s blue bin was full of recyclables including clean plastic containers, bottles, cans, paper, cardboard and glass bottles and jars. Patrick’s son Brian and younger nieces are also keen recyclers who stop and ask which bin they should be using before they throw anything away.
The Recycling Officer for Newry and Mourne Council Said: “Mr Boyle and his family are truly an example to the community. Their blue bin was filled with all the correct materials, and their waste was clean dry and loose. The key element to their approach is that they placed an extra bin in their kitchen for recycling to ensure none of there waste went into the wrong bin’.
The Recycling Officer added, ‘Newry and Mourne District Council residents are for the most part excellent in terms of their recycling practices, however we would like to remind householders the blue bin service does not include plastic bags, plastic wrap/film or polystyrene packaging and bins can not be collected if these items are included’.
Officers will be targeting contamination over the next number of months and those bins with incorrect materials will not be collected.
For more information about recycling or the competition, please contact our Recycling Officer on (028) 30313233 or email recycling@newryandmourne.gov.uk. For information on the Rethink Waste campaign please log on to www.rethinkwasteni.org or sign up to rethinkwasteni on facebook.
Christmas refuse collection service
The bins normally collected on a Wednesday will be lifted on Saturday 28th December 2013.
The bins normally collected on a Thursday will be lifted on Sunday 29th December 2013.
There will be a normal bin collection on Friday 28th December and it is Black bin week.
The bins normally collected on Wednesday's which is New Year's Day will be collected on Saturday 4th January 2014 and it is Blue Bins.
All Civic amenity sites will be open on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th December from 9.00am to 4.00pm and will re-open on Friday 27th December to Saturday 28th December from 9.00am to 4.45pm. They will be closed on Wednesday 1st January 2014, New Year's Day.
Aughnagun Landfill Site will be closed from Monday 23th December to Thursday 26th December and closed again on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th December. It will be closed on Wednesday 1st January 2014.
