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Waste & Recycling |
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If everyone in the world was as wasteful as we are in the UK we would need 8 worlds to keep going
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New Recycling Facility September 2009
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South Beds Friends of the Earth obtain £1200 of funding for a Recycling Unit for Parsons Close Recreation Ground After six months of research and discussions with the Town Council and Central Bedfordshire, South Bedfordshire Friends of the Earth have been successful with their grant application to Wixamtree Trust for approx £1200 for a recycling centre in Parsons Close Recreational Ground. Domestic recycling is increasingly successful in Leighton Linslade, but plastic bottles and aluminium cans in the parks and the town centre are not sorted and recycled and but instead are just sent to landfill. This grant will provide a receptacle similar to a litter bin which will have separate compartments for plastic bottles and aluminium cans and from which Central Bedfordshire will collect and take to be recycled.
With a recycling
centre for plastic bottles and aluminium drink cans we hope to encourage
residents and shopkeepers to use this facility to decrease our town’s
contribution to landfill.
The town council are
helping with the installation and central Bedfordshire are collecting
from it, but neither council had the resources in theses cash strapped
times to pay for the actual recycling centre. Therefore we applied for
the grant from the Wixamtree Trust and are delighted that we have been
given it. Although this was pretty much the baby of Annie Taylor and Victoria, we should thank Debbie and Barry from the Town Council along with Cllr Adam Fahn all of whom offered much needed support to get the idea approved.
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Local news & services
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in South Beds |
Recycle tetra-paks in Leighton Buzzard Recycling, refuse collection & composting the above are links to South Beds District Council pages
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Food waste creates methane
in landfill, and a sludge which picks up toxic chemicals from the other
materials in the landfill, which can then leach into the water table.
Also councils will get
taxed enormously if they do not reduce the amount of bio-waste going to
landfill, which in turn could lead to rises in council tax.
Not happy about fortnightly waste collection? Worried about smelly, overflowing bins or concerned about attracting vermin? Would it help if the council arranged a collection for kitchen waste? You need to e-mail or speak to your ward councillor as soon as possible. Your councillor has ultimate power over improving waste collection services. |
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Incineration - National FoE Incineration - BBC website Environment Agency - What's in Your Backyard? type in your postcode on site
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Recycling: facts & figures
Annually, the average household produces around a tonne of waste. That means every 5 households throw away the equivalent in weight to one elephant - every year!
The UK has one of Europe's lowest glass recycling rates. Glass can be recycled infinitely
25 plastic bottles can be recycled to make a cosy fleece top
A vending cup can be made into a pencil or a pen
Recycled paper can become new newspapers and magazines, as well as paper packaging
Around 20,000 tonnes of aluminium foil packaging (worth £8 million) is wasted each year. Only 3,000 tonnes is recycled
Plastic bags sent to landfill take around 500 years to decay. Many shops offer reusable bags that can be replaced for free when worn, or you could invest in a few sturdy bags or boxes
Plastic bags can be recycled into garden furniture, decking and fencing
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