Archived News - Recycling
Recycling in Eaton Bray
Do you use any of the following?
- Baby food pouches (any brand pouches and Ella's Kitchen packaging )
- Baby wipes packets (any brand)
- Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes (any brand)
- Coffee packaging (any brand jar lids, pouches, coffee sticks etc)
- Actimel bottles, Activia and Shape yoghurt pots (no other brands please)
- Writing implements and correction fluid containers (any type except wooden pencils and wax crayons)
- Mobile phones (any type but no chargers)
- Biscuit wrappers (any brand of sweet biscuit wrapper)
If so, please put them in the collecting box outside Eaton Bray Village Store or take them to the school office.
They will be collected, sorted and sent off to Terracycle who upcycle them and pay 2p per item to the school (more for mobile phones).
For more information see www.terracycle.co.uk or
Eaton Bray Academy to benefit from New Recycling Scheme
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Eaton Bray Academy to benefit from New Recycling Scheme
Eaton Bray is one of the first locations to join a brand new nationwide recycling scheme set up by Kenco and TerraCycle called the Coffee Packaging Brigade, aiming to save coffee packaging waste from landfill.
A collection box for all brands of coffee packaging waste is situated at the Nisa Local on the High Street with funds being donated to Eaton Bray Academy for each unit of coffee packaging waste collected.
The majority of coffee packaging waste unfortunately ends up in landfill as local councils simply don't have the infrastructure to recycle mixed plastics. The waste however is recyclable, prompting Kenco to partner with TerraCycle to set up the Coffee Packaging Brigade with an initial 100 location spaces available across the UK.
The aim is to enable communities to come together to save as much coffee packaging waste from local landfill, whilst raising money for good causes. The coffee packaging waste will be recycled into generic plastic products such as park benches, watering cans and waste bins.
TerraCycle and Kenco appealed for people across the UK to find suitable locations in their communities that were willing to house a collection box and apply for a space.
Villager Anne Johnson arranged for a box to be located in Eaton Bray. Locals are now able to drop their waste coffee refill bags, coffee bean bags, single serving coffee sachets and coffee jar lids off to the collection box located outside the store 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Mrs Johnson said: "It is great that Nisa Local have housed a collection box at their store to enable us to be one of the first communities in the UK to be able to recycle their coffee packaging waste. Two TerraCycle points are earned for the weight of each coffee packaging unit that is returned, with each point being redeemable for a one pence contribution.
"All the money raised will go to Eaton Bray Academy for the school's allotment project where children help to grow fruit and vegetables that are used in the school kitchen so we encourage local people to drop off all their coffee packaging waste and tell all their friends and family to do the same. The aim is to not only save as much coffee packaging waste from landfill as possible but also to raise as much as possible for the school."
Waste Collections
All vehicles and crews are being used to their maximum capacity to catch up on missed collections from before Christmas. Please continue to leave missed your bin/bags out.
In the South residual (black bin) collections are up to date and recycling will be completed by the end of the week at the latest.
In the North food waste collections were up to date by 31st Dec. Recycling collections will be up to date by tomorrow and residual (black bin) collection will be completed by the end of the week.
It is inevitable that some collections missed two weeks ago will not have been completed by the next scheduled collection date, this week. We will be collecting any missed waste and recycling which has accumulated over the period ; in the North black bags left next to the bin and in the South, recycling presented in clear bags/orange bags (ideally) or bags clearly labelled 'RECYCLING'.
All clinical, bulky waste and weekly collections were prioritised and are up to date.
Angela Humphreys
Waste Operations
Waste Services - Next Week
We are catching up on missed collections from this week.
Next week (week commencing 27th) all scheduled collections will resume (pending no further weather issues).
Green waste is currently suspended (as advertised).
Curb side glass will be suspended in the South until week commencing 3rd January and there will be no additional recycling collections as planned in the South.
The guidance to customers is to leave normal scheduled bin out from next week onwards.
If they have missed a collection from this week ask the resident to please leave bin in safe position, but we may not get back until the bins next scheduled collection when it will be taken with side waste.
Regards
Waste Operations Team
Central Bedfordshire Council
Waste & Recycling Collections
We have been advised that all waste and recycling collections have resumed today. However, some roads are still very icy so we cannot guarantee all roads will be accessible.
We are monitoring the situation and will keep you all updated throughout the day.
Kind regards,
Gaspare Sciales
Technical Officer - Waste Operations
Central Bedfordshire Council
All Waste Collections Suspended
Unfortunately due to adverse weather conditions All Waste Collections have been suspended.
We are monitoring the situation and will keep you all update throughout the day.
Household Recycling Centres are still open, but due to the poor weather conditions we would not advise anyone to travel unless absolutely necessary.
Kind regards,
Gaspare Sciales
Technical Officer - Waste Operations
Central Bedfordshire Council
Recycle Now, January 2009
Thanks to your help, the recycling rate across Bedfordshire has increased from 5% in 2000/01 to 40% in 2008/09. We have some way to go to reach our next target of 50% recycling by 2011 but we know that with so many dedicated recyclers we can all make a difference by recycling more and more often. Together we can do it!
To help, we are pleased to announce that we are now adding more items to the recycling collection scheme. Starting on the 12th January 2009 residents in Bedfordshire will be able to add the new items to their existing collection (see below). You won't have to separate the recycling or do anything other than add these new items to your current collection bin or bag.
Source: Bedfordshire County Council
Christmas and New Year Recycling and Refuse Collections
South Beds have now published their schedule for Christmas and New Year Recycling and Refuse Collections.
By suspending green bin collections, the council can offer a WEEKLY collection of your BLACK bin over the Christmas and New Year period. (Green Bin collections will be suspended from Monday 17th December 2007 until Friday 11th January 2008 inclusive)
From Monday 17th December put your black bin out in place of your green bin. Orange bin collections will remain alternate weekly.
The following table shows the changes that affect Eaton Bray:
| Scheduled Collection | Revised Collection Day | |
| Orange and Green Bins | Monday 10th Dec | As normal |
| Black Bin only | Monday 17th Dec | As normal |
| Black Bin and Orange Bin (no Green bin) | Monday 24th Dec | As normal |
| Black Bin only | Monday 31st Dec | Wednesday 2nd Jan |
| Black Bin and Orange Bin (no Green bin) | Monday 7th Jan | Tuesday 8th Jan |
| Black Bin only | Monday 14th Jan | As normal |
| Orange and Green Bins | Monday 21st Jan | As normal |
The Eaton Bray Refuse Collection page will automatically update to show the correct next collection dates.
Source: South Beds Website
South Bedfordshire is now recycling over 29 per cent
South Bedfordshire District Council would like to say a big THANK YOU to all residents as recycling rates continue to rise. The district is now recycling over 29 per cent from the kerbside recycling scheme and the recycling facilities located throughout the District. This is a huge increase from 7 per cent recycling rate in 2002/3. We are sure all residents taking part in the scheme will keep up the good work.
Why do we need to recycle?
We cannot go on burying our waste in the ground forever and landfill space is running out. Landfill sites release harmful gasses into the atmosphere, which is a contributing factor to climate change. Through recycling, reducing and reusing we are able to reduce the amount of waste taken to landfill, therefore reducing the potential of polluting your natural environment Recycling and using recycled products also reduces the amount of natural resources being extracted.
How you can do your bit?
- Use the kerbside orange bag recycling scheme.
- Shop smartly - buy products in packaging you can recycle.
- Re-use your carrier bags at the supermarket. A plastic bag can take 500 years to break down at a landfill site.
- Use the recycling facilities located throughout the district.
- Schools are now also able to join the recycling scheme, so sign up now!
Recycling has never been easier, with many items being collected through the kerbside scheme. By separating your waste and placing recyclables into the orange bag you too can help.
Source: Focus, May 2007
The greens v the rats - who'll win?
A magnet for vermin or an intelligent way to get people recycling?
The great bins debate has been rumbling on again, and with bin collections back in the headlines, people up and down the country have been talking rubbish this week.
More than 140 councils have already scrapped weekly bin collections in favour of alternate weekly collections, and South Beds District Council is set to follow their lead later this year.
From September 3, householders in the district will have their black bins emptied one week and recyclables picked up the next.
It's been dubbed a way of reducing the amount of rubbish going into landfill, and the council claims recycling rates are set to rocket.
But when the decision was announced last September the Gazette was inundated with angry responses from taxpayers.
This week the district council confirmed that there are no plans to extend kerbside glass collections, so many recyclers will have to continue taking glass to bottle banks.
Since the council's executive committee decided to scrap weekly bin collections, a lot of the talk has been on whether leaving rubbish in bins for longer poses health risks.
An investigation by the News of the World has claimed that levels of "dangerous organisms" found in bins rise dramatically if rubbish isn't picked up for a fortnight.
But the paper also pointed out that research has also shown two-weekold waste is safe if it's wrapped up properly.
This week South Beds District Council said that so far feedback from the public has been "minimal and mixed".
And a spokesman said: "While some residents have expressed concern about the issue, once it is explained to them, most appreciate that it will lead to improved recycling rates and that it is necessary if the council is to avoid landfill taxes.
"The experience from other councils is that the introduction of an alternate week collection service does not result in any increase in rodents or insects, provided people wrap their food waste safely and securely, and store it in their black-wheeled bin with the lid closed."
People living in flats with communal bins will continue to have their rubbish picked up weekly, the Gazette has learned.
The district council is set to spend around £600,000 rolling out new orange recycling bins and mounting an education campaign.
This money comes from a local area agreement grant from Beds County Council.
Two national newspapers, including the News of the World, have mounted campaigns against alternate weekly collections.
It's been one of the big talking points ahead of local elections across the country tomorrow, but it's not one that divides easily along party lines. Councils controlled by all the major parties have switched to alternate collections.
Among these is neighbouring Mid Beds, where the district council claims that the project has been a success.
More than 15,000 tonnes of household waste were diverted from landfill to be recycled, and the recycling rate doubled between April 2005 and March 2006, according to Mid Beds District Council.
And research by the Local Government Association (LGA) suggests that areas where rubbish is picked up less often have higher recycling rates.
LGA chairman Sandy Bruce Lockhart said: "Britain is the dustbin of Europe with more rubbish being thrown into landfill than any other country in the continent.M
"For decades people have been used to being able to throw their rubbish away without worrying about environmental consequences or rising costs.
"Those days are now over."
Source: Dave Burke, Dunstable Gazette, 2 May 2007