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Essex Waste Strategy

Essex Waste Strategy 2023

Essex Waste Strategy Flyer

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Councils across Essex are working together to develop a new Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for the next 30 years. They developed the previous strategy in 2007, and much has changed since then, including the significant climate change challenge that we now face.

Waste management is a major contributor to climate change, accounting for about 4% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. Improving environmental efficiency by making different choices about how we collect and treat waste will help reduce these emissions. Waste prevention can also deliver benefits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in other sectors, such as agriculture, transport and manufacturing.

New Strategy

The new strategy will focus on the following key elements:

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Recycling & Waste Consultation

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recycling consultationRecycling & Waste Consultation

Colchester Borough Council is about to commence a consultation on its current waste and recycling service. Borough residents are being asked for their views to help Colchester Borough Council consider how best to reduce waste and increase recycling in the coming years.

All residents are invited to give their views through the online survey at www.colchester.gov.uk/recyclingsurvey between Monday 7 March and 5pm Friday 3 June 2016.

Help to complete the survey is available at free Online Skills events across the borough listed at www.colchester.gov.uk/go-online .  Residents with accessibility needs can request assistance from a Customer Advisor at the Community Hub in the town centre.

From 7 March to 29 March and Monday 9 May to Friday 3 June selected homes across the borough with kerbside or communal bin collections will also be visited.  Face to face feedback on recycling and waste collections will be gathered from around 1,000 residents.

Home visits will take place borough-wide between 9am and 8pm, Monday to Saturday to households representative of Colchester’s demographic mix.

All survey responses will be used to help the Council understand what residents think including: satisfaction with the type and number of containers used for home storage and collection of waste and recycling; frequency of collections; and ideas for improvement that would help residents send less waste to landfill and recycle more.  Household characteristics, including number of residents at the property and availability of outdoor and container storage areas, will also be gathered.

The consultation is part of a full review of the Council’s waste and recycling service including considering different collection methods and best practice nationally.

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Attended Freighter this weekend

Attended Freighter this weekend

Make the most of this Free Skip Service from CBC at the Orpen Hall Car Park on Saturday 22nd August 2015 between 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Colchester Borough Council will be in West Bergholt at the Orpen Hall car park with their ‘Attended Freighter’ to collect small loads of household items that are not collected as part of your regular kerbside collection.

Please don’t use this service to dispose of items which can be recycled, although you can bring garden waste separately which will be composted.

Please note that they will cannot accept any of the following items:

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Allotments update – Bonfire

A bonfireNotice to Allotment Holders – Bonfire

There will be an allotment bonfire on 7th October 2014 between the hours of 6pm – 8pm.  Allotment holders cooperation is required to help minimise and reduce the nuisance caused by excessive smoke; please provide only the following for the bonfire, particularly following the recent change in the weather conditions:

  • Vegetation which has had all soil removed from the roots,
  • Vegetation which has been thoroughly dried,
  • Dry wood and paper.

Items for the fire should be delivered to the bonfire site between 3pm – 7pm on the day.

To find out more about the West Bergholt Allotments visit their webpage on this site.

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Recycle Week 21-27June 2010

Colchester Borough Council is supporting Recycle Week and is encouraging residents to recycle their small electrical and electronic equipment (anything with a battery or plug) at local Recycling Centres for Household Waste.

What can be recycled?

Waste electrical and electronic equipment that can be recycled includes:

  • kitchen appliances including kettles and toasters
  • power tools
  • tv’s
  • music equipment
  • electronic children’s toys
  • battery powered clocks and watches
  • fluorescent tubes and low energy light bulbs

Nearly 40% of UK residents say they are ‘electrical lovers’ with a quarter missing out on time with family and friends, and 33% losing sleep to spend time with gadgets such as laptops, mobile phones and iPods. Each of us accumulates an average of three new electrical items a year, or 173 million nationally, but only 1 in 5 small electrical items gets recycled each year. The valuable materials such as silver that these items contain can be used again which saves precious new resources from being used. When recycled, just one toaster can provide enough steel to make 25 new cans.

Where can residents reuse or recycle electrical and electronic equipment?

Recycling Centres for Household Waste in the Colchester area are at Shrub End, West Mersea and Lawford. Click here to find the nearest site and information on all items that are accepted there.

Alternatively unwanted working electrical and electronic equipment can find a new home by donating them to charities, including the British Heart Foundation, or on reuse websites. Click here for charity and reuse website contacts.

De-clutter your e-clutter

Nearly 40% of UK residents have at least one electrical item from the last decade stored unused at home. So whether clearing out cupboards, the attic or shed during Recycle Week or throughout the year residents can give all their old, broken or unwanted small electricals the chance to be useful again. There’s no need to hang on to these items due to not being sure of what to do with them or hoping they will come in handy one day.

Residents can pledge to recycle their waste electrical and electronic equipment, enter a prize draw and find more interesting facts and tips by visiting the Recycle Week website.

This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website at http://www.westbergholt.net
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Attended Freighter Dates for 2010…

Colchester Borough Council’s Attended Refuse Freighter service will be visiting Orpen Hall Car park this year between 10:45 – 12:00 on 22nd May, 24th July & 18th September. Please note:

  • no fridges or freezers;
  • no electrical goods;
  • no items which can be recycled through kerbside collections;
  • please bring green garden waste separately to be composted;
  • this service is provided for small loads and from domestic properties, so you can use this service to dispose of bulky items not normally collected with household waste;
  • no commercial refuse or hazardous waste such as asbestos, liquids, gas bottles;
  • no large loads please.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE TELEPHONE 01206 282700

This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website at http://www.westbergholt.net
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