Environment Minister John Shimmin is delighted Tynwald has approved expenditure of ?750,000 on the IIsle of Man's first large-scale kerbside collection scheme.
Sixteen thousand homes around Douglas, Onchan and Braddan will be given two colour-coded plastic containers and will be asked to put newspapers and magazines into one and steel, aluminium, glass and plastics into the other.
Mr Shimmin says the scheme is a vital first step in re-cycling, but much more needs to be done so the energy from waste plant (pictured) doesn't reach capacity (audio file attached):
John Shimmin was talking to Stuart Peters live on Mandate.
(picture: The energy from waste plant, from manxscenes.com).
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