Thurso Recycling Centre To Open

A new Recycling Centre at Janetstown near Thurso is due to be opened on Monday 7th November 2005. Funded by the Scottish Strategic Waste Fund, the Centre will employ 2 new members of staff to operate the facility which will be open 7 days a week.

Local firm, John Gunn & Son was contracted by the Council to build the new facility which took approximately 12 weeks to complete.

Householders will now be able to take cans, car batteries, cardboard, electrical appliances, engine oil, garden waste, gas cylinders, glass bottles and jars, paper, rubble & soil, scrap metal, textiles, tyres, white goods and wood to the site where separate containers and skips will be available to collect the material to be recycled. A special container will be provided for people to donate furniture and household goods to Homeaid Caithness for reuse.

Householders will be met at the site entrance by an operative who will direct them to the correct containers and are advised to separate their waste before they go the site. The Recycling Centre will be open from 11am - 4pm seven days a week.

It is hoped that 60% of the waste that is taken to the Recycling Centre will be recycled and add 2.5% to the Council’s 18% recycling target.

From 1st November 2005 the Wick Recycling Centre will be operating winter opening hours and will be open from 11.00am - 4.00pm seven days a week. There is also a recycling facility at the Seater Landfill which now accepts cans, car batteries, cardboard, electrical appliances, engine oil, garden waste, gas cylinders, glass bottles & jars, paper, rubble & soil, scrap metal, white goods and wood for recycling and is open Monday-Friday 8.00am - 4.00pm and Saturdays 8.00am-12.00pm.

For further information about recycling in your area please telephone 01349 868439 or email recycle@highland.gov.uk.