The Dorset Waste Partnership is looking to save money and is considering closing some of the eleven household recycling sites in Dorset.

It is also considering limiting what items can be deposited free of charge or closing each site for part of the week.

Two of these sites are in the Borough, at Lodmoor and on Portland. To make sure that your voice is heard, please take part in the consultation on the Dorset For You website. We need to recycle as much as possible. It makes no sense throwing away items which can be reused or recycled that end up in landfill.

Landfill is extremely expensive. Closing household recycling sites or restricting what can be put there without charge is likely to be detrimental to the local environment and could lead to an increase in the amount of fly-tipping in the Borough.

The high cost of clearing fly-tipping would have to be met by local taxpayers.

The consultation runs until February 13.

We have told the DWP that we don’t want to lose our sites but we need residents to support us. Please take part in the con-sultation and let them know just how much we value these sites.

Cllr Ian Roebuck, Environment Briefholder, WPBC
Cllr Gill Taylor, Liberal Democrat Group Leader, WPBC