Tag Archives: waste management
Shropshire powers ahead with cooking oil recycling
Shropshire Council and their waste contractor Veolia are celebrating the success of a green energy initiative which has seen 6,740 litres of used cooking oil collected from Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) in Shropshire in the last year alone. To recognise …
Council works with B&Q to encourage safe paint disposal
Shropshire Council is working in partnership with retailer B&Q and their paint tin suppliers Ardagh Group to raise awareness of how to safely dispose of waste paint. Many paints are water-based and are not considered hazardous. However, some paint contains …
Sign up for Freegle
Shropshire Council is encouraging residents to sign up to Freegle – a grass roots movement that is helping to reduce waste. There are over one million Freegle members online in 366 groups all over the UK including right here in …
Compostable food waste binliners available
Shropshire Council and their contractor Veolia are reminding residents in north and south Shropshire that special compostable liners are available to help them recycle their food waste. The council has been selling liners in south Shropshire since 2011, and sales …
Waste less food by eating more pancakes
To mark Pancake Day (Tuesday 12 February 2013), Shropshire Council is working in partnership with Veolia and Love Food Hate Waste to help raise awareness of the problem of food waste. Pancakes are traditionally made on Shrove Tuesday as a …
Rapping robot to visit Shropshire schools
Schoolpupils across Shropshire will be learning more about recycling this month when ‘Recycler’ the rapping robot visits 12 Shropshire primary schools. (See notes for schedule). Recycler has been visiting schools in Shropshire since 2004, and from Monday 11 February 2013 …
Chance to buy compost bins at discounted prices
Shropshire residents have until 1 April 2013 to buy a home compost bin at a specially discounted price. Shropshire Council works in partnership with www.getcomposting.com to enable residents to buy discounted home compost bins. It’s all part of a strategy …
Recycling centres’ summer opening hours to change
Shropshire’s five household recycling centres (HRCs) are to remain open from 9am to 5pm each day on a permanent basis from March 2013. In previous years, between late March and late October the centres have opened until 7pm on weekdays, …
Shropshire schoolpupils recycle thousands of electrical items
Hundreds of schoolpupils from more than a dozen Shropshire schools have recycled over 10.5 tonnes of electrical items, as part of a competition organised by Shropshire Council and Veolia Environmental Services, in partnership with Shrewsbury firm Arbitel Recycling. Now more …
Reminder to recycle old Yellow Pages
Shropshire residents are being asked to recycle their old Yellow Pages, now that the new ones have been delivered. Yellow Pages and all other types of telephone directory, such as those produced by BT and Thomson, can simply be placed …