‘Wheelie bins are on their way’ Bolton residents told

Bolton Council had taken a selection of what the Bolton Evening News called at the time ‘big wheelies’ to Horwich Market to show shoppers this new idea in waste collection.

Wheelie bin trial, Horwich, 1984 (Picture: Newsquest)

Horwich and Blackrod residents had been lined up to trial wheel bins on a number of collection routes.

More than 300 people went along to the demonstration of the new bins staged by the council’s environmental health team.

Council environment boss Ian Liversedge said: “There were pensioners there, people who just wanted to look at the system and others who expressed satisfaction with the present refuse collection system and felt the new plan would create problems.”

Introducing wheelie bins would allow for greater recycling but would mean extra bins for households.

Source – INDIA TV