Residents are being sent a big ‘thank you’ for their recycling efforts over the Christmas period that resulted in the biggest collection day Bath & North East Somerset Council’s waste team has ever seen.

Recycling crews handled more than 166 tonnes of recycling – the equivalent of the weight of 24 full grown African elephants – on 2nd January, which beats the previous highest record of 161 tonnes in 2017, and is around sixty extra tonnes than on an average day.

The drive to recycle across the district has also contributed to the Council being placed in the top twenty English local authorities for household waste, recycling, composting and reuse rate in the latest table from the environment website: www.letsrecycle.com.

People can find out how the food waste the Council recycles is transformed into electricity, with nothing going to landfill, in a video, produced in partnership

with recycling and renewable energy company, GENeco, which can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/ 2I8Tjb4Fy-Q

Councillor David Wood, joint cabinet member for Climate Emergency and Neighbourhood Services, said: “Our recycling achievements in Bath and North East Somerset this Christmas and New Year have been second to none. I’d like to thank our residents for their great efforts and co-operation in helping us to successfully recycle the Christmas waste, which increases by almost a third at this time of year.

“I also congratulate our waste and recycling teams for working hard during extended hours and poor weather to get all the collections done, so that our residents continue to have an efficient service during the holiday period. I’m looking forward to our figures going up again in 2020 – please keep on recycling.”

For New Year recycling days and normal collection days: https://beta.bathnes. gov.uk/rubbish-and-recycling