More than 600 tonnes of waste has been collected for recycling in the Stewartry over the last six months.
The council’s multi-bin recycling system was rolled out in the district at the end of March.
Since then, 217 tonnes of plastic and cans have been collected along with a further 461 tonnes of paper and cardboard.
That contributes to a Dumfries and Galloway total of more than 3,000 tonnes.
The figures were presented to members of the ad-hoc waste collection, treatment and disposal sub-committee on Thursday.
A report for members revealed initial “teething problems” seem to have been resolved with the levels of contaminations caused by people putting waste in the wrong bins having “significantly dropped”.
However, councillors were told there is a “persistent issue” of contamination at some sites where communal bins were provided for rubbish and recycling.
Waste officers are in discussions with housing association officers to tackle the problem.
The report, by infrastructure manager James McLeod and commercial team leader Janice Ireland, also provided an update on the introduction of the food waste recycling system.
It has recently been introduced in five towns – Dalbeattie, Dumfries, Lockerbie, Annan and Gretna – where more than four tonnes was collected in the first month.
The report’s authors believe this amount will fall “as segregation generally leads to householder habits changing in terms of disposing of out-of-date food”.
The next stage of the roll-out will be to introduce the service to flats using communal bins in the five towns.
Members were also told that the amount of glass collected for recycling is set to double this year.
Bottles and jars are not collected from the kerb but dropped off at communal banks. Officials believe more than 2,800 tonnes will be collected in 2021/22, compared to 1,250 tonnes in 2020/21 and 1,500 tonnes the year before.
The report claimed initial problems with glass collection were due to the “success of the recycling message” with issues connected to overflowing bottle banks resolved by replacing smaller bins with skips, more frequent collections and an extra lorry for the west of the region.
