ONE of Steyning's most desirable residential streets could become a drop-off point for containers of waste on their way to be recycled.
A new recycling collection service, named Acorn Plus, is due to start in Steyning next month.
Alex Gander, Horsham District Council's assistant head of environmental management, waste and cleansing, explained the scheme at Monday's Steyning Parish Council meeting.
Later this month, some 6,000 homes in the Steyning, Bramber and Upper Beeding areas will receive new wheelie bins with a blue lid.
They will take all recycling, including glass and corrugated cardboard, and will replace the existing recycling boxes.
There will be no extra charge to tax payers.
Bins will be picked up on the kerbside by an automated arm and emptied into a box on a side-loading vehicle.
Waste Mr Gander said: "It doesn't work with parked cars or very narrow roads, but 90 per cent of roads are suitable.
"It will take a bit of getting used to, as all these changes do."
He added alternative arrangements would be made for such roads in Steyning, including Charlton Street, Church Street and the High Street.
Waste will be collected in large, interchangable boxes on the back of new lorries, and will then be dropped off, ready for collection by another vehicle which can carry two of the large boxes at a time.
Mr Gander told councillors two sites being considered for the drop-off and collection, which could take up to an hour each time, were Fletcher's Croft car park and Goring Road.
He added the new vehicles – to carry out two collections a week instead of one – would lead to a annual mileage reduction of 25 per cent.
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