Village recycling schemes could fall victim to Council measures to improve provision of its recycling facilities.

Kirklees councillors will hear tomorrow that smaller sites which cannot accommodate bottle banks large enough to collect more than one colour of glass may have to be axed in a reorganisation of recycling facilities in the district.

The Council has operated glass recycling schemes in the district for more than ten years and now has three different types of collection points in operation.

It is the smaller 'mini' sites, such as at Brooklyn Road, Cleckheaton, that may be replaced if recommendations are followed.

At present 50 per cent of 'mini' sites have only one container, and funds and available land to increase the provision of containers in these areas are unavailable.

The Council will focus on providing larger recycling facilities, such as at the Tesco supermarket site in Northgate, Cleckheaton, which can separate glass prior to collection.

The Council has been informed by the Glass Manufacturers Federation that the market for recycling mixed coloured glass will cease to be viable in the near future and it will only be only be possible to recycle glass already separated into different colours of brown, green and clear bottles.

Kirklees, which has the highest density of recycling facilities of any local authority in the UK, is hoping to become a beacon authority with reorganisation of its glass recycling collection points.

Council officers will recommend to the policy waste management sub-committee tomorrow that a detailed report be made examining the best distribution of recycling facilities in the area.

Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.