Politician blasts Renfrewshire's green credentials

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A councillor has hit out over lack of recycling provision in his area, saying it flies in the face of Renfrewshire Council's green ambitions.Jamie McGuire says the lack of facilities in his Renfrew ward are a "disgrace in 2022", especially when the recent COP26 climate change summit - which welcomed world leaders focused on ambitious targets to battle global warming and threw the spotlight on the Clydeside - was just minutes away.Councillor McGuire, who represents the Renfrew North and Braehead ward, told the Express: "One issue that has persistently come up is that there are no recycling bins in the whole of Renfrew.Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here."People are doing all the hard work at home, recycling, washing things out to bin, but when they go out and they go into Robertson Park or wherever, there are no recycling bins, just general waste."The Labour politician added: "I think there needs to be a real campaign, if you want to have a greener Renfrewshire, there has to be a real effort made.If the local government hasn't got in place the essentials like bins, how can you expect people to follow it?"It's a real disgrace in 2022, especially when the COP26 summit was just down the road and here we are facing the fact that we don't even have recycling bins in our own towns."There has been a lot of talk about being green but it's obviously not being followed through."Councillor McGuire continued: "If Renfrewshire Council has real green ambitions then it has to do it properly."I go up to the recycling centre a couple of times a month because my bins end up overflowing but then you go into your own town and rubbish has to go in general waste because of a lack of bins."R