“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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If like us this Christmas you have discovered a whole piles of unwanted or unused items in the loft or in the back of cupboards or if you have received a present you really didn’t want, but can’t bare to see them going into a landfill then there is an effective option through Reigate Freecycle®.
Full Story »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.
Full Story »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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