A plan by Marks and Spencers to initiate a new office recycling and collection initiative for leftover food wrapping from office workers is in the pipeline.

Marks and Spencers has joined hands with Closed Loop Recycling in the food wrapping recycling initiative. Some of the food wrapping material from Marks and Spencers will bear the logo of Closed Loop Recycling and information on how one can join. Offices which sign up for the initiative will get branded recycling boxes.

According to Marks and Spencers, an office of twenty people who would generate around five bags of waste every week would need to fork out approximately five pounds for the recycling service. The cost however largely depends on the level of the collection and the office size. The money is paid to Closed Loop Recycling who run the collection service as well as doing the recycling itself.

Elsewhere a new recycling scheme is in the pipeline in North Warwickshire. Warwickshire County Council is partnering with Staffordshire County Council to build a new recycling centre at Lower House Farm. Planning permission has been applied for and if granted the new plant could be operating in 2010. It would supplant the old facility located at Grendon.

A member of the environment committee at the county council, Councillor Martin Heatley, admitted that the local authority had been considering a replacement for the Grendon recycling plant since it was small in size and unable to meet the current demands. The rate of recycling in Grendon is at present low.

Proposals are also being considered by the council to build a transfer station for the transferring of waste to a planned energy from waste facility in south Staffordshire.