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RECYCLING centres are set to re-open in Moray from Monday 1 June. A booking
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Moray Council Office, High Street, Elgin, Moray, IV30 1BX, Scotland, United Kingdom
Recycling centres will re-open in Moray from Monday 1 June, with strict physical distancing in place at Chanonry in Elgin, Waterford in Forres, Gollachy in Buckie, and Keith.
More than 2,500 booking slots are available across the centres weekly.
Online booking is strongly encouraged, however for residents without internet access, bookings will be taken via phone to the council''s contact centre.
Cars will have access to the site – no pedestrians, trailers or other larger vehicles like vans and trucks will be permitted.
Residents will be able to dispose of household waste including bagged general waste, small electrical plug-in items (not bulky waste including white goods) and bagged garden waste, which they''ll be asked to empty when unloading into the garden waste skip.
Materials including soil, glass, metals, bulky waste, wood and rubble will not initially be accepted.
Moray Council''s kerbsidebulky waste servicehas been reinstated, and unmanned recycling points and bottle banks are accepting glass recycling.
In addition, a maximum of two people exiting each vehicle will be permitted.
Moray Council''s Waste Manager, Mike Neary, said similar restrictions were being introduced in other Scottish local authorities in order to reintroduce the service without overloading it.
"While we''re not in a position yet to return to ''business as usual'', we''ve reviewed our procedures so that we can safely operate our recycling centres for residents to dispose responsibly of waste which they''ve stored.
"We won''t allow admission otherwise."
BOOKINGS for access to Elgin''s Chanonry Household Waste and Recycling Centre are to become a permanent fixture.
For the foreseeable future, bookings will remain mandatory for visits to all recycling centres in Moray, in line with Scottish Government social distancing advice. However, today councillors voted in favour of keeping the system in place permanently in Elgin only.
Doing so will allow Moray Council, which had allocated £1.53 million over the next two years to investigate and develop an alternative site for Elgin''s recycling centre, to remain at Chanonry – saving up to £1.48 million in relocation costs.
Pre-Covid, the constraints of the busy site had made it difficult to operate and ensure health and safety requirements were maintained, with traffic management required during busy periods to avoid vehicles backing up onto the A96 trunk road. The booking system in place has meant that vehicle movements are controlled, reducing health and safety risks and avoiding queuing traffic.
Now, £50,000 – or £40,000 if the council is successful in securing a Zero Waste Scotland grant – will be reassigned from the relocation project to install an automatic number plate recognition system and automatic barrier, granting access to vehicles linked to a valid booking reference.
Chair of Moray Council''s Economic Growth, Housing & Environmental Sustainability Committee, Cllr Graham Leadbitter, said: "The booking system for our recycling centres has proven very effective in managing numbers during the current Covid outbreak and over time the availability of bookings will increase as and when restrictions ease.
"Keeping the booking system in place and investing in systems such as automated barriers that are linked to number plate recognition and the booking system will ensure a much smoother experience for people, and reduce waiting at peak times such as the weekends and over the Christmas period.
"Anecdotally people are also planning their journeys to the recycling centres more, taking larger loads and making fewer trips - which has both an environmental and cost benefit from fewer journeys being made, and making the management of the sites better for both staff and customers."
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BOOKINGS are now being taken ahead of Moray recycling centres reopening next week.
Recycling centres will reopen from Monday, June 1, with strict social distancing in place at Chanonry in Elgin, Waterford in Forres, Gollachy in Buckie, and Keith.
More than 2,500 booking slots are available across all the centres weekly.
People are being urged to book online, but for residents without internet access, bookings will be taken by phone to the council''s contact centre.
Only cars will have access to the site. No pedestrians, trailers or other larger vehicles like vans and trucks will be permitted.
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