Dover District Council offer discount water butts & Composters

DDC have re-launched their discount home compost and water butt scheme.

Some good bargains on composters and water butts especially if you buy several (they have buy one get another 1/2 free deal).

This offer is welcomed by Deal With IT as it is the sort of thing our council should be doing to promote growing your own and conserving water. Especially so with water issues we are going to face this year and the new charges for garden waste collection the council are introducing in April.



"Dover District Council has teamed up with evengreener.com to offer residents home composting bins and water butts at bargain prices!

To order a reduced priced compost bin, water butt or accessories please telephone 0844 571 4444.
To order on line or view the compost bins, water butts and accessories available visit www.dover.getcomposting.com."

DDC Public Consultation of Future of Deal

Dover District Council Public Consultation on the future of Deal

Residents and organisations who would like to have their say on the future plan for Middle and North Deal are invited to a workshop at The Golf Road Centre on Wednesday 25 January 2012 at 6pm.
The purpose of this event is to gather valuable input from local people through table based discussions. The Council and its consultants would like to use the event to understand your views in order to inform the final recommendations of this stage of the study.


Please note that due to the capacity of the venue attendance is limited, so please ensure you RSVP to book your place before Tuesday 24 January 2012 by email to: regenerationdelivery@dover.gov.uk or telephone (01304) 872477.

Tea and light refreshments will be provided.

This could be your last chance to have a say on the future development of Deal!

Dover's recycling workshops in sept

Almost 1000 people responded in Dover district Council's recent Recycling and Waste Survey

Dover District Council is organising a number of workshops in September to give you the opportunity learn more about the new waste, recycling and street cleansing contract that we will be entering into with our neighbours, Shepway District Council later this year.

If you are interested in attending please email  waste@dover.gov.uk

Need a reminder for your recycling ?

Dover District Council have now got a recycling email reminder service to give you a gentle nudge.

Follow the link at:
http://www.doverdc.co.uk/streetdata/recyclingalerts.asp

Deal - Is so bracing....

Dover District Council's webiste have nifty page on local Air Quality Monitoring - there is a Air quality survey run by the University of Brighton plus lots of useful documents at the KAQ site. The nearest monitoring sites are all in Dover and all get 'green' ratings, even the Docks (Ramsgate was amber last year)

DDC: http://www.dover.gov.uk/environment/air_quality.aspx

Kent Air Quality site: http://www.kentair.org.uk/about.php

Dover District Council are talking rubbish.....

Well not exactly - Dover District Council and Shepway District Council, in partnership with Kent County Council, will soon be entering into a new, joint contract for recycling and waste collections. They say "A joint contract will offer economies of scale which will help to ensure that we get the best price for our residents for the collection and disposal service".
There is a online questionaire (and one in this week's local papers) ... this is a great opportunity for us to register our long requested desire to extend recycling locally. Please log your comments by Friday 18th June: http://www.dover.gov.uk/waste__recycling/changes_to_collections.aspx