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Welcome to our Winter Ezine, all about having a Merry Green Christmas whilst keeping an eye on your waste line! Featuring information about seasonal bin collections, Christmas tree recycling and how to cut down on food waste. Read about our fabulous schools recycling display, '1000 Beautiful Birds of Peace' and find out how to book a visit to our award winning energy-from-waste facility.
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All you need to know about waste and recycling at Christmas
Our Christmas webpages are here to help you have a green and low-waste Christmas, packed with information about recycled gift ideas, fun alternatives to wrapping paper and tips to help reduce food waste.
Here are a few to get you started:
- Recycle cards and wrapping paper (apart from foil-based) in your home recycling bin, just remove the tape and ribbons
- Consult our collection calendars for any seasonal changes to your bin collection
- Christmas trees can be recycled at all of Suffolk’s Recycling Centres and there are many local collection and drop off arrangements in place too
- If you have a few empty bottles to recycle after all the fun is over you can find your nearest glass bank at https://www.recyclenow.com/local-recycling. Glass banks are emptied more regularly at this time of year but please spare a thought for local residents if they are full and come back at a later date if you can. Metal tops and lids can be left on as they will be separated in the recycling process
Bad weather can sometimes result in delays, so don’t worry if your bin isn’t collected due to these special circumstances, we will soon catch up with collections!
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1000 Beautiful Birds of Peace
Once again this Christmas, we have been engaging with the young people of Suffolk to encourage and celebrate re-use and recycling in Suffolk. The response to this year’s ‘Beautiful Birds of Peace’ recycling project has been truly amazing with 31 schools, a library, a brownie and a guide group taking part, sending in more than 1700 birds in total (700 more than the 1000 target!). We would like to send a huge thank you to all the schools and groups that took part and helped make it such a success. We couldn’t do it without you!
The birds are now hanging in all their splendour upstairs at the Apex, Bury St Edmunds (until mid-Jan) and in Ipswich Town Hall café/gallery (until 9th Jan). They really are well worth a visit.
All schools were entered into a draw to win a £50 gardening voucher and this year's winner, Priory School from Bury St Edmunds, will be presented with their prize on 19 Dec by Suffolk Waste Partnership chair Cllr David Bowman.
You can find a full list of participating schools and see the full gallery here.
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Recycling Centre Opening at Christmas
Because Christmas Day falls on a Monday this year, Suffolk's Recycling Centres will be closed for 3 consecutive days over the Christmas period: Mon 25, Tues 26 and Weds 27 December as well as New Year's Day.
That means that sites may be very busy on the days in between, so remember to pre-sort your waste before you visit and recycle as much as possible in your household recycling bin. During bad weather, please check @suffolkHWRC for any site closures before you go. Winter opening hours are 9am - 4pm.
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News from Suffolk Energy from Waste
Going digital
Suffolk energy-from-waste is now tweeting! See @SuffolkEfW for all the latest news on site and tips on how to reduce, reuse and recycle your rubbish.
Twice a year, 9,000 homes in the surrounding area of the facility in Great Blakenham receive a newsletter. In 2018, we have plans for this newsletter to go digital, moving to an email format, which will help reduce waste. If you would like to join the mailing list please sign up by emailing suffolkefw@sita.co.uk with your name and postcode and ‘newsletter registration’ in the title of the email.
Come and have a look around
Come along to one of our open days in the new year which include a tour of the facility and time to explore our visitor centre:
Thursday 18 January 2-4pm
Tuesday 6 February 10-12pm
Thursday 15 February 2-4pm
Tuesday 20 March 6-8pm
20 spaces are available each day and you will need to book your place beforehand.
Please email suffolkEfW@sita.co.uk stating your preferred date.
If you would like to visit but cannot make these dates, send an email to register your interest and we will let you know about the next open day.
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Use o ur A-Z of recycling for the best ways to reduce, reuse and recycle most items and if you can't find what you need let us know!
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