ANOTHER plastic bottle bank has been introduced to boost recycling in Swindon.
Swindon Council has put the new bank at West Swindon District Centre because they have proved so popular in other parts of town.
More than nine tonnes of plastic bottles around 180,000 have been collected since the first bank was introduced in December.
Council leader Mike Bawden said: "It is fantastic that we have expanded this recycling.
"It is very popular with local residents. If all the plastic bottles collected for recycling in Swindon during the past six months were laid end to end they would stretch 54 kilometres that's Swindon to Bristol.
"Plastic bottles can be recycled into a diverse range of products including park benches, gutters for your house and even new fleece jackets."
Plastic bottle banks were already in place at the Household Waste Recycling Centre at Cheney Manor, Stratton Sainsbury's, the Ellendune Centre in Wroughton and the Haydon Centre in Haydon Wick.
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