The latest collection of unwanted textiles from households across the Daventry district to be recycled to help fund the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) is now underway.
People who have clothes, shoes, linen, curtains and soft toys they don’t want should not put them out in the red box or throw them away in the grey bins, but instead put them in the special bags provided by DB Collections and put these outside on the date indicated.
Teams from DB Collections, collection agents for WNAA working in partnership with the council, will be visiting homes across the area in the next few weeks.
For every tonne of textiles that is collected for recycling from homes across Daventry district, £50 goes to WNAA to help keep the life-saving helicopters in the air.
The revamped recycling scheme collected over 32 tonnes of old shoes and clothes in the first quarter collections after its launch at the end of March.
It is hoped DB Collections will be recycling more than 100 tonnes of clothing a year.
Anyone with queries about the scheme, when their collection is or what can be included in the bag, can contact the Council’s Waste Management Team on 01327 871100.
The air ambulance is funded entirely by voluntary donations and responds to around 110 calls per month. It costs £1.4 million a year to operate – approximately £3 per minute – and can reach anywhere in Northamptonshire within 15 minutes.
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