After six months of research and discussions with the Town Council and Central Bedfordshire, South Bedfordshire Friends of the Earth have been successful with their grant application to Wixamtree Trust for approx £1,200 for a recycling centre in Parsons Close Recreational Ground.
Domestic recycling is increasingly successful in Leighton Linslade, but plastic bottles and aluminium cans in the parks and the town centre are not sorted and recycled and but instead are just sent to landfill. This grant will provide a receptacle similar to a litter bin which will have separate compartments for plastic bottles and aluminium cans and from which Central Bedfordshire will collect and take to be recycled.
With a recycling centre for plastic bottles and aluminium drink cans we hope to encourage residents and shopkeepers to use this facility to decrease our town’s contribution to landfill. The town council are helping with the installation and central Bedfordshire are collecting from it, but neither council had the resources in theses cash strapped times to pay for the actual recycling centre. Therefore we applied for the grant from the Wixamtree Trust and are delighted that we have been given it.
Although this was pretty much the baby of South Beds FoE members Annie and Victoria, we should thank Debbie and Barry from the Town Council along with Cllr Adam Fahn, all of whom offered much needed support to get the idea approved.