Annual Waste & Recycling

Calendarand Information Booklet

www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk/wasteservices

Your collection day is

Monday

We are challenging our residents to see if you can reduce, reuse or recycle more.

Thanks to your help our dry recycling rate has increased by 22% since the introduction of blue wheelie bins last year, but we would like to do even better by asking you to reduce the amount of waste we send to landfi ll.

This means reducing the waste we put in our green bin.

Trim your Bin is about thinking before you bin things - do I really need to put it in my green bin or can I reuse or recycle it rather than sending it to be buried in the ground?

Every tonne of green bin waste the Council take to landfi ll incurs a tax payable by the Council. By reducing our green bin waste and recycling more in our blue and brown bins, we save money and increase our recycling rates.

So let’s see how low can we go with green bin waste - and how high can we go with blue and brown bin recycling in Cannock Chase District.

Do your bit for the environment - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle for Cannock Chase!

• Compost your food waste whenever possible, using your brown bin or by having a compost heap/bin in your garden

• Avoid buying disposable products, instead for example use cloth napkins, reusable crockery for a picnic, refi llable razors, lighters, pens and pencils

• Avoid unwanted mail - join the Mail Preference Service which will stop mail shots coming through the door. Go to www.mpsonline.org.uk or call 0845 703 4599

• Buy your fruit and vegetables loose rather than packaged, or select produce with recyclable packaging

Below are ten top waste minimisation tips:• Reuse products in your home, for example jam jars make great storage containers for a range of items

• Recycle unwanted items and clothes at your favourite charity shop

• Recycle your old mobile phone on various websites or some charity shops

• Reuse carrier bags and then recycle once no longer usable

• Replace disposable nappies with Real Nappies, you can even get money towards buying them

• Check out the Love Food Hate Waste website for tips on how to get the most out of food and leftovers www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

Reducing food waste is a major issue and not just about good food going to waste; wasting food costs the average family with children £680 a year and has serious environmental implications too.

If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the CO2 impact would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road. For more information visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by

households in the UK every year.

Home composting is the most sustainable way to manage and dispose of garden waste and some food waste.

Over one third of the contents of an average UK household bin can be home composted and garden waste can also be added to a compost bin.

At fi rst it may take up to six months before you start producing usable compost. But once you get going you will have a constant supply of compost made from your own garden and food waste.

Staffordshire Recycling Partnership (the eight district councils and the county council) are offering residents in the Cannock Chase area the opportunity to purchase a subsidised compost bin.

Compost bins can be bought for as little as £14 and water butt kits for £27

If you are interested in ordering a compost bin or want to fi nd out more visit

www.staffs.getcomposting.com or call 0844 5714444

As a nation we

produce around

30 million tonnes

of rubbish each year

and over half of this

waste can be recycled.

Love Food Hate Waste

Remember!

Bins should be

put out by 7am on

your collection day

Brown Bin for composting

No additional side refuse or black bags are collected

with any bin

mixed plasticsfoil

cartonscorrugatedcardboard

telephonedirectories

Blue Binfor recycling (only items below)

Recycling and composting

Remember!

Please rinse out all items.

Squashing your items before putting them in your bin will allow you to recycle more.

Please put items in loose not in bags.

You can wrap your food waste in sheets of

newspaper and putthis into your brown bin.It can also be lined with

sheets of newspaper to help soak up any residue from food

Green Bin for landfi ll

Donate unwanted

furniture to

charity groups

Take unwanted

clothes and shoes

to bring site

recycling centres

Replace disposable

nappies with

Real Nappies,

you can even get

money towards

buying them

To fi nd out more information visit www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk/wasteservices

Reduce, Reuse

and Recycle

for

Cannock Chase!

What shouldn’t go in mygreen bin?

Batteries (these can be taken to a collection point in most supermarkets)

Household light bulbs, paint and cooking oil (these can be taken to your household Waste Recycling Centres)

Dead animals

What goes in my green bin?

Any non-recyclable general household items, for example:

Polystyrene

Crisp packets/sweet packets

Sanitary products

Nappies

Cat litter

Waxed bread wrappers

Ashes

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PULL OUT Key

Green Bin

Brown Bin

Blue Bin

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Thanks to you...our overall recycling rate rocketed last year after

we introduced the new blue bins

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Christmas WeekAll collections will be made one day later than usual i.e.

Monday 26th collections on Tuesday 27th and so on untilSaturday 31st December 2011

New Year WeekAll collections will be made one day later than usual i.e.

Monday 2nd collections on Tuesday 3rd and so on

until Saturday 7th January 2012

AND KEEP

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Printed on recycled paper from sustainable forests This booklet can be recycled

April 2011

Thanks to you we are now...

One of the 70 top performing Councils for recycling in the country

Recycling and composting over 50% of our waste annually

Have one of the cheapest waste and recycling services in the Country

Diverting over 1,800 refuse lorry loads from landfi ll each year

This booklet can be provided in braille, on audio cassette tape/disk, large print and in other languages on request

to Cannock Chase Council on 01543 462621.

Winter Opening TimesMon - Tues ClosedWed - Fri 9am - 4.30pmSat - Sun 9am - 4.30pm

Summer Opening TimesMon - Tues ClosedWed - Fri 9am - 6pmSat - Sun 9am - 5pm

Cannock Poplars Landfi ll Site, Lichfield Road, Cannock WS11 8NQ

Winter Opening TimesMon, Tues, Fri 9am - 4.30pmWed - Thu ClosedSat - Sun 9am - 4.30pm

Summer Opening TimesMon Tues & Fri 9am - 6pmWed - Thur ClosedSat - Sun 9am - 5pm

Rugeley - Station Road Site, Station Road, Rugeley WS15 2HE

Winter opening times start when the clocks go back in Autumn. Summer opening times start when the clocks go forward in Spring.

Bank Holiday Opening Times for both Recycling CentresOpen 9am - 5pmClosed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day

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