Driving the message home!

Date:  04 August 2009

Our fleet of refuse and recycling lorries have undergone a special makeover this week, to promote key environmental messages.

The lorries are now equipped with patented Agripa signage boards promoting the 4Rs - reduce, re-use, recycle and recover. The current signs raise awareness of food waste issues, encouraging residents to re-use and recycle food scraps. All food scraps, from peelings to raw or cooked meat, can be placed in the brown bins collected by us. You can wrap scraps in newspaper if you're concerned about flies or smells.

The signs can be re-used to brand the lorries with new messages as required; helping to save money but keep the image fresh.

Councillor Phil Brading, Portfolio Holder for Public Services and Health, said:

"We're really pleased with the lorries' new look. These important recycling messages will be seen by residents all over the district and we hope they'll help to increase Three Rivers' already impressive recycling rate of 49.3 per cent. Plus, they're much more interesting to look at than plain lorry sides!"

More on recycling