RECYCLING banks in Cam could be removed as part of council cost-cutting measures.
Stroud District Council’s environment committee is being recommended to withdraw its recycling banks service to help offset a forecasted £450,000 overspend in its contract with Ubico.
Until 1995 the banks were the only method of recycling in the district and at its peak there were 76 sites across the district.
Only two remain, in Cam and in Cainscross, and the committee is being asked to withdraw the service which costs over £68,000 each year.
In a report provided to the committee, the council’s public space manager Carlos Novoth said that the banks now represent only one per cent of the council’s total recycling.
The committee is being recommended to withdraw the service and will make a decision at its meeting today.
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