Bridgend crowned Wales recycling champs!

The Labour Bridgend County Borough Council has beaten stiff competition from two of Wales’s largest authorities to be named the country’s council recycling champions.

Thanks to votes from the public, BCBC beat rivals Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and Newport City Council in the Local Authority Partnership category of Cinch’s Wales Recycling Awards.

BCBC made the shortlist after impressing judges with the fantastic recycling performance over the last year, delivered in partnership with May Gurney. The average household now recycles12kg of waste each month – 50 per cent more than this time last year.

Cllr Phil White, Cabinet Member for Communities, said: “Our residents have helped to make Bridgend such a recycling success story and now they’ve helped us to win this award too – so I would like to thank each and every one.

“Residents have made a real effort at home to increase the amount they recycle and this took us from being the second worst recycling borough in Wales to one of the best. Now, not only are we the most improved in Wales, we’re also the proud winners of a Cylch award!”

Bridgend County Borough Council’s recycling scheme also reached the finals of the prestigious APSE awards, as well as national recycling industry awards edie and Green Apple and the CIPR Pride awards.

Cylch is the Wales Community Recycling Network and provides information, advice and support to existing and emerging community recyclers across Wales.

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