Omagh District Council's Chairman, Councillor Errol Thompson has officially opened the upgraded Fintona Household Waste Recycling Centre.

The upgrade of the site was a result of grant funding from the Department of the Environment Rethink Waste Capital Grant fund.

The upgraded site will result in a more efficient service to the public, providing easy access to skips for recycling, with new and improved signage for guidance to the location of the various waste streams. The larger skips and compactors provide increased capacity for material collected on the site and additional space to recycle an expanded range of materials. Hard plastics, mattresses, sofas, beds and carpets and waste oil can now be collected for recycling, which greatly reduces the risk of recyclable material entering the residual skips and ending up in landfill.

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The Fintona Recycling Centre upgrade is part of the Council's commitment to delivering an efficient and effective network of household recycling centres in the Omagh district, to ensure high quality recycling facilities are available to all residents. The overall objective is to ensure that the amount of waste being sent to landfill continues to reduce, and that recycling and composting continue to increase, to meet EU and central government targets.

Thanks to the continuous effort of the public to separating their waste for recycling, Omagh District has increased the recycling rate and decreased waste to landfill significantly. It is the Council's intention to continue to provide quality recycling facilities, hence making it more convenient for residents to reduce, reuse and recycle their waste.

Commenting at the opening of the upgraded Fintona Recycling Centre, the Council’s Chairman, Councillor Errol Thompson expressed the Council’s thanks and appreciation to the Department of the Environment for the financial support which, to date, amounts to £1.3m from the DoE Rethink Waste Fund. "The funding which we have received has enabled us to provide these excellent recycling facilities which are already having a significant impact on improving our recycling rate, reducing the amount of waste to landfill and in turn providing a significant saving to local rate payers. We also acknowledge the ongoing efforts of residents to separate their waste and recycle as much as possible, and we will continue to develop the waste management infrastructure to ensure that residents have access to high quality recycling facilities."

(CD/MH)