“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Council again this year is providing a free real Christmas tree recycling service so residents can recycle their unwanted trees. Every year the service grows ever more popular and last year residents recycled over 8,000 trees. Reigate & Banstead Borough Council are helping residents to put their real Christmas trees to good use after the festive season by offering a free Christmas Tree recycling collection service.
Residents will now no longer need to separate their coloured glass bottles and jars for recycling because new technology.
New optical sorting technology at the plant were the Council sends its glass for recycling now allows glass to be colour separated automatically ready to be turned into new glass products. This change means that all glass recycling bins at bring sites across the borough will be able to take glass bottles and jars of any colour.
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council is looking for residents feedback on proposals for a major expansion of the Borough’s household recycling service.
The report sets out draft proposals for a full, weekly collection of five different recyclable materials, meaning that the majority of households should be able to recycle more than three quarters of their rubbish from the kerbside.
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