COUNCIL chiefs have unveiled a scheme to stop people throwing away recycleable waste.

They want to open 50 new recycling sites - currently there are only 14 council managed centres in The borough.

The initiative aims to lift the borough's recycling rates towards its targets of 10 per cent by March 2004 and 18 per cent by March 2006.

It will be funded by a £150,000 Government grant and the council wants to have the new sites in place by next March.

Nearly 100 potential sites for the centres have been identified, and the 50 locations for the centres will be selected from these. There will be 12 or 13 centres in each of the borough's four areas - Altrincham, Sale, Stretford and Urmston.

Every new site will be opened on a six-month trial basis, in a bid to soothe any residents' concerns.

The borough generates 165,000 tonnes of household waste a year and its recycling rate was less than six per cent in 2001/2002.

Glenn Stuart, Trafford's waste manager, said: "It is recognised that a combination of a dense network of neighbourhood recycling centres and door to door collections of materials is essential if the council is to meet its recycling targets. Recycling must be made more convenient if public participation in schemes and hence tonnages of material collected are to improve.

"The establishment of new recycling centres in residential areas, sited adjacent to local amenities such as shops and pubs, will allow many more people to access to such facilities, particularly those households without use of a vehicle."

Schools, churches, and community groups will be encouraged to 'adopt' a centre, keeping an eye on the facility in return for an annual payment from the council. Centres will have half a dozen wheeled containers, collecting glass, paper and cans.

Where they would be sited

Stretford and Old Trafford

Rear of Trafford Town Hall, at corner of Warwick Road and Barlow Road; Longford Park Community Centre and former library, on corner of Kings Road and Great Stone Road, the Quadrant; car park for Seymour Park, at corner of St. Hilda's Road and Carver Street, Old Trafford; car park at Stretford Metrolink station, off Edge Lane; Third Avenue, Trafford Park; Stretford Road, Old Trafford; car park at bend in Cornbrook Park Road, at end of Malvern Row, Old Trafford; junction of Ayres Road and Albion Street, Old Trafford; parking bay, Dudley Close, off Bold Street, Seven Sisters, Old Trafford; paved area at junction of Kings Road, Addison Crescent and Skerton Road; junction of Warwick Road South and Rye Bank Road; The Quadrant; Warwick Road - outside Old Trafford Metrolink station; corner of Taylor's Road and Gorse Street, Gorse Hill; car park, Wardle Close; junction of Moss Road and Davyhulme Road East; Chester Road lay-by opposite household waste recycling centre; Stretford Leisure Centre, Great Stone Road; B and Q, Great Stone Road, Stretford; White City Retail Park, Chester Road; The Drum, Chester Road; Throstles Nest, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford; The Tollgate, Seymour Grove, Old Trafford.

Urmston, Flixton, Davyhulme, Partington and Carrington

Penny Bridge Lane, Flixton; St Anthony's RC High School, Bradfield Road; The Green, Lock Lane, Partington; off roundabout, at junction of Woodsend Road and Irlam Road, Flixton; corner of Irlam Road and Woodsend Road, Flixton; Bowfell Road, next to Curzon Cinema; shops on Broadway, Davyhulme; Trafford Retail Park, Davyhulme; Manor Avenue car park, Urmston; Oak Road car park, Partington; PHA offices, Wood Lane, Partington; Humphrey Lane, nr Humphrey Park railway station; car boot sale site, Manchester Road, Carrington; Trafford council depot, Manchester Road, Carrington; Urmston Leisure Centre/Library car park, Bowfell Road; George H. Carnall Leisure Centre, Kingsway Park, Davyhulme; The Bent Brook, Broadway, Urmston; Fox & Hounds, Woodsend Road, Urmston; Red Lion, Woodsend Road/Irlam Road, Flixton; Flixton Ex-Servicemen's Club, Flixton Road, Flixton; Bird I'th Hand, Flixton Road, Flixton; Flixton Conservative Club, Chassen Road, Flixton; The Roebuck Hotel, Chassen Road/ChurchRoad, Flixton; The Urmston, Stretford,Road, Urmston.

Written comments can be made to the council about each proposed site and alternative sites can also be suggested.