Media News - Thursday, August 23, 2007

Free newspaper publishers will pay for London recycling bins

Associated Newspapers and News International have reached a joint agreement with Westminster City Council to pay for 64 recycling bins to be placed around central London. The deal comes after the council threatened earlier this year to ban the two London free newspapers, Associated's London Lite and News International rival thelondonpaper, if they did not contribute to the cost of clearing up discarded papers each night. The council - which oversees a large part of Central London, including Victoria and Charing Cross mainline rail stations - said in April that the two free papers, since they launched last August, had created an extra 1,000 tonnes of waste. Under today's agreement, Associated will pay for 32 London Lite-branded bins around Victoria station and Leicester Square and thelondonpaper will fund another 32 bins around Charing Cross and Oxford Circus. The two publishers will recycle the contents of the bins and will also carry out regular litter collections in addition to the council's street sweeping programme. (Press Gazette)

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