Councillors from Hastings and Rother are visiting France on Monday on a fact-finding trip.
The group is visiting a recycling plant to see if a similar scheme can be set up here.
Cllr Peter Pragnell, leader of Hastings Borough Council will be joined by Cllr Matthew Lock, lead councillor for environment at the county council, his counter
part Cllr David Russell at Rother District Council, Richard Homewood, director of environment and safety at Hastings and Tony Leonard, director of services at Rother.
They will be going on a day visit to Angers, capital of the Anjou district in northwestern France, where they will be shown a commercial waste management and recycling operation which is being run as a collaboration between local government and a charity.
Materials segregated for recycling at the Angers 'Ecocyclerie' include paper, cardboard, metals, batteries, used oil, materials for incineration, bulky waste and green waste.
Other materials are salvaged by the community for sale in its shop or for scrap.
Last year 1,300 tonnes of donated goods were collected for reuse, 355 tonnes were sold for recycling and 5,000 tonnes of waste collected from the Ecocyclerie by the local authority's waste collection service.
A total of €1,085,722 was raised from the sale of goods and services.
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