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Live Love Recycle

Leaflets showing bin collections for the festive period will be hitting doormats across Hastings over the next few days. Each household will receive a personalised calendar telling them when to leave waste and recycling out for collection over Christmas and the New Year period.

In addition to the waste and recycling calendar, the East Sussex Waste Partnership, which includes Hastings Borough Council, has launched a campaign to encourage residents to recycle a greater range of household items and details of this are also included in the new pack.

Cllr Warren Davies, Hastings Borough Council’s lead member for environment said: “Our residents are doing a great job of recycling, but we need to see more. There are so many items around the home that can be recycled but are currently being thrown away as rubbish. Analysis of rubbish collected earlier in the year showed that nearly a quarter of it could have been recycled.”

Many households regularly recycle items such as plastic milk bottles and glass bottles, newspapers and cans, but there are items in almost every room of the house that can be recycled. These include;

• In the bathroom: toilet roll tubes and toothpaste boxes, plastic shampoo and shower gel bottles and lids

• In the bedroom: tissue boxes and deodorant cans

• In the living room: newspaper, envelopes and cardboard packaging from online orders, as well as air freshener aerosol cans

• In the kitchen: breakfast cereal and dishwasher tablet boxes along with washing up liquid bottles, plastic bleach bottles, surface cleaner bottles, plastic pots, tubs and trays

Cllr Davies added: “Over Christmas and New Year period our rubbish increases so this is a perfect time to really think about what we do and don’t recycle. With the support of WRAP we hope to help residents understand more about recycling and their collections and so increase the amount of recyclable items collected from every household.”

More information about Live Love Recycle here.

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Posted 08:19 Wednesday, Dec 2, 2015 In: Energy Wise

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