Tamworth Borough Council and Lichfield District Council will merge their waste and recycling teams in order to make efficiency savings and provide a better service to residents.
The new team will be based at Lichfield’s purpose-built recycling depot in Burntwood, and will be operational from summer 2010.
Cllr Louise Flowith, Lichfield’s cabinet member for operational services, said the move would cut carbon emissions and provide better value for money from suppliers, as well as the opportunity to test out new recycling methods more quickly.
Cllr John Garner, Tamworth’s cabinet member for public health and wellbeing, said: ‘By joining forces we’ll be able to work with residents, which will help make the new service even better. We’ll also be able to promote simple techniques that will make a big difference to the amount of waste we all produce.’
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