IN A BID to make Weymouth a cleaner and greener place to live, work and visit, new recycling facilities are being trialled at a seafront café.

The Prom Café has welcomed an array of colourful bins that will collect and recycle compostable waste such as tea bags, as well as cans, plastic bottles and card, glass bottles, and drinks cartons - with signs above that show how much of each waste has been recycled every week.

It is hoped the bins will increase the amount of recycling at the café and also supports Weymouth Town Council's policy to reduce single use plastic across its operations.

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Cllr David Harris, spokesperson on the council’s climate and ecological emergency work, said: “Introducing these colourful bins will help to increase the amount of waste that can be recycled from the café.

Furthermore, the compostable waste will be taken to the community grow space at Tumbledown.

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Cllr Harris added: “Compostable waste will be shredded at Tumbledown. Once the waste has broken down it will be used as compost on the land to grow fruit and vegetables sold through our community veg box scheme, so the benefits are huge.”

If the trial is successful the council plan to extend the recycling facilities to the Beach Cafe kiosk at Brunswick Terrace.