LEEP Recycling and Edinburgh Council Launch City Centre Business Recycling Collections

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The new collection service was promoted over a six month period from March 2007 and aimed to recruit 125 new SMEs from the area. LEEP Recycling, which is part of the sustainable development charity Changeworks, offered the Council's existing trade waste customers an additional recycling service. LEEP Recycling was able to collect paper and cardboard from local businesses on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, tailoring the service to meet the customers' needs. In addition cans and plastic bottles can also be collected, if required. The service offered an easy, cost effective and convenient solution to business recycling and follows last year's award winning 'Our Boxes Mean Business' campaign, which resulted in 245 Edinburgh-based SMEs signing up to the service - diverting an estimated 396 tonnes of waste from landfill per year.

'LEEP Recycling is delighted to be working in partnership on this project with the City of Edinburgh Council, which is fully behind us in our efforts to get as many businesses as possible in the Edinburgh area recycling at work,' said Louise Birnie, Sales Manager - LEEP Recycling. 'Our service is easy, cost effective and convenient, and with so many people now recycling at home, separating materials for collection is second nature.'

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