HOMES in parts of Rossendale are to be targeted as part of a council's drive to boost recycling figures right across the borough.
Bury Council is launching a spring campaign involving 28,000 homes, including properties in Ramsbottom, in a new phase of its doorstep recycling scheme.
The alternate weekly collection scheme will start early next month, with a further 14,000 homes in Ramsbottom and surrounding homes joining the scheme at the end of next month.
A brown bin scheme for the recycling of garden waste, has already been running since the summer, but from next month, the council will launch the second phase of the scheme -- providing homes with black boxes for residents to recycle 'dry recyclables' such as paper, glass, cans, plastic bottles and textiles.
Residents will now have a recycling collection of items from the brown bin and black box one week and then a collection of non-recyclable 'residual waste' collected in grey or green wheelie bins the following week.
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