Recycling scheme’s end has no knock-on effect for Straight

RECYCLING group Straight has said that the decision to stop supplying compost bins to councils is the right one.

The Leeds-based firm said it welcomed the news that WRAP – the Government funded Waste and Resources Action programme – had brought forward its decision to end the scheme.

During the last five years, WRAP has helped double the UK market for compost bins through its home composting programme with local councils.

However, during 2008, WRAP experienced a dramatic drop off in sales as reduced government funding required it to increase its prices.

Jonathan Straight, chief executive of the AIM quoted firm said: “We have supplied more than half of the compost bins used in the WRAP campaign since it started and our home delivery programme, on which the initial WRAP campaign was modelled, does mean that we are well placed to immediately offer councils in England a virtually identical programme to WRAP.”

He added: “This development further validates the decision taken at the time of the board’s recent strategic review to retain a rationalised retail capacity within the group.

“We have in place the capability to meet the demand arising from WRAP’s former customers without the need for further expense and are confident that this development will provide a substantial opportunity for the group going forward.”