Here are a few New Year’s resolutions to help everyone get into the habit of reducing waste: Reduce your waste – buy only what you need and try to buy with little packaging. Reuse what you can – buy products that can be reused (rechargeable batteries, bottles instead of cans etc), take old carrier bags [...]
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Spring is an ideal and easy time to begin composting so Surrey residents are being encouraged to go green and start, to help reduce the amount of food and garden waste going to landfill. To help residents get started, there are discounted bins available through the Surrey Waste Partnership, and step-by-step guides available online at [...]
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If you are thinking of giving your home a makeover without spending a fortune or hunting for treasure at bargain prices why not visit one of Surrey Reuse Network´s furniture showrooms. For more information about the network and contact details visit the Surrey Reuse Network website or call free on 0800 082 0180 (charges apply [...]
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“Love your electricals – set them free” is the call from Reigate & Banstead Borough Council which is using Recycle Week 2010 (21 to 27 June) to encourage residents to recycle their unwanted electrical items. Recycle Week aims to encourage us all to think about the many, easy ways we can waste less and make [...]
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Households could save up to £50 a month simply by cutting down on food waste and re-using leftovers, according to new research. Figures released by the Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP) estimate a family could significantly cut their food bills simply by being more careful about the amount of food they buy and cook. [...]
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Reigate & Banstead Borough Council emerged from last Thursday’s Severnside Achievement in Recycling Awards with two awards, beating off competition from far larger organisations in its bid to have the recycling achievements of local residents recognised in these national awards. At the awards ceremony in Cardiff the Borough Council won the Recycling Partnership Award, beating [...]
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Surrey County Council has launched an online toolkit to show businesses how to recycle and dispose of their waste properly. It costs taxpayers at least £1 million each year to dispose of trade waste that has been dumped illegally at community recycling centres, recycling bank sites and via household waste collections. The council’s new online environmental toolkit Surrey [...]
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Reigate & Banstead Borough Council’s recycling team is hitting the road over the coming months to bring the “reduce, reuse and recycle” message out to residents to help them waste less, and hopefully save money at the same time. The Council’s recycling roadshow trailer is visiting community events and family fun days around the Borough, [...]
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Following the disruption to refuse and recycling collections over the past few weeks, caused by the combination of bad weather and Christmas, collections are returning to normal this week and residents in Redhill should expect collections on their normal collection day this week, of refuse and recycling. Thank you to all residents for your patience [...]
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As a result of the improved weather conditions today, refuse collections are now returning to normal, but for the latter part of this week will happen one day later than usual. Therefore wheelie bin collections in Redhill which usuall happen on a Friday will happen this Saturday, 16th January. This may include recycling in some [...]
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