COLCHESTER residents are recycling more, new figures reveal.
A performance report shows a little over 42 per cent of the rubbish collected by Colchester Council between April and September was recycled.
The figure is slightly above the 41 per cent target set by the government and up from the 39.28 per cent collected last year.
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