Basingstoke and Deane borough council is attempting to improve its poor recycling rate with a new green plea to residents.
As the new yellow pages catalogue gets distributed across Basingstoke and Deane, residents are urged to turn their old yellow pages green, by putting previous editions into their green bin for kerbside collection.
The directories can then be recycled and turned into animal bedding, jiffy bags, egg boxes and loft insulation.
Cabinet Member for the Environment and Climate Change Cllr Elaine Still said: “Many residents are already recycle their old newspapers, plastic bottles and cans via their kerbside recycling collections. Over the next few weeks, we are asking them to recycle one extra item, their old 2009/10 Yellow Pages directory.
“If all borough residents recycle their old directory it will make a real contribution to helping the environment by saving an estimated 100 tonnes of paper from going to waste. With the recent introduction of aerosol recycling there is now so much that can be recycled via the kerbside and if every household in the borough recycled all that we can currently recycle the borough recycling rate would stand at 50%.”
