MORE than 6,000 kilos of waste has been removed from Tavistock Pannier Market since a new recycling system was introduced in the area earlier this year. The town council?s properties committee last week heard the new recycling programme, in addition to being environmentally friendly, was saving the council around £600 a month. Cllr Mandy Govier, who is chairman of the town?s pannier market sub-committee, said the new system was going ?very, very well?. She said all the cardboard waste produced by traders in the pannier market was now being collected and taken to a special cardboard crusher, purchased by the council after investigations revealed it would be cheaper to operate its own system than to pay a contractor to take the waste away. Cllr Govier said: ?They collect the waste every day or so, crush it and take it to Plymouth and it?s saving us a considerable amount of money, as well as being good environmentally. ?The town council has taken control of the waste situation itself and I think it?s brilliant, I?m quite proud we?ve done it and it?s working very well.?
