Richborough Action Group Leafletting in Deal

The Campaign group resisting the closure of the Richborough Recycling Centre will be in Town on Saturday leafletting in the High Street.

 The Closure of the centre will mean more traffic at the Deal and Dover sites. In the case of Deal that means going through an already busy residential area.

Please pop down and show them your support.

Deal Recycling centre to expand ?

The future of the household waste and recycling centres service provided by Kent County Council is under review.

The KCC says it wants to identify the "right level" of the waste tip service at the "right cost" so it is fit for purpose and for the future. Before any decisions are made, the council is carrying out a public consultation so everyone in Kent has an opportunity to contribute to the process.

One suggestion is that the Deal and Margate waste tips are underused and that the current Richborough tip might be closed to boost their use. For details and the survey form, see http://www.kent.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/recycling_and_rubbish/ways_to_recycle/waste_and_recycling_centres/hwrc_consultation.aspx .

The consultation will close on Thursday, 9 February.

Thank you Harold for the posting

DDC new recycling scheme success

Households Recycle More As New Service Is Rolled Out  

Dover District Council is welcoming the success of the major new recycling service that continues to roll out across the area - and is thanking householders for their support as recycling rates have already hit a fantastic 45%.

Results show that October saw recycling rates at 45% - that’s a 9% increase on the total for the same month last year (36%), and an 11% increase on the total for October 2009 (34%).

Some interesting points from the roll out include:

• Around 30,000 properties are now able to recycle under the new scheme
• The cost of the new containers and wheeled bins is being funded by Kent County Council out of the savings made from households recycling more
• New things residents can recycle include – beverage cartons (Tetra Pak), batteries, empty aerosols, and all types of plastic packaging (pots, tubs and trays), (but not plastic bags)
• 175 tonnes of food waste was collected in October from approximately 15,000 properties.  If it was not recycled into compost it would have been thrown away
• Storing and putting waste out in bins stops it being attacked by seagulls and foxes, leaving less rubbish on the street after collections
• The joint service arrangements between Dover DC, Shepway DC and KCC are projected to save the partnership around £4m a year.

Cllr Nicholas Kenton, DDC Cabinet Member for Environment and Waste said: “These are fantastic results, and we thank all the householders who are helping us to protect the environment and recycle more.  A recycling rate of 45%, while we are still rolling out the new service, is great news and shows we are on target for 50% or more.  We look forward to continuing to work with residents to recycle even more for the future.”

The new service includes the introduction of a weekly collection of food waste and an improved recycling collection.  DDC is providing residents with new containers for food waste, and wheeled bins for the collection of a greater range of recyclables and for the fortnightly collection of the waste that householders have not been able to recycle.

If you have not received your new bins, don’t worry as the new scheme will be rolling out to properties up to January 2012.  For more information, please call 01304 872428 or see the waste and recycling pages.

Date: 28/11/2011
Contact:  Andy Steele
Telephone:  01304 872020
Fax:  01304 872300
Press Office Direct Line:  01304 872020

Recycle, Reuse,Reduce Meeting 27th Sept

Deal With It's September is on Waste - We have Brian Rumbelow coming along from Dover District Council to talk about the new collection service but we also want to discuss how our community also Reuse and Reduce its waste was well as recycling.

tuesday 27th Sept - 7:30pm
Dealability
43 Victoria Road
Deal CT14 7AY

ALL WELCOME

Best of Dover&Deal Business Recycling

Welcome to Recycle for Free

Recycle for free in the Dover, Deal and Sandwich area. If you are in business make use of the unwanted goods other organisations don't need - for free.

Are you a business or organisation in the Dover, Deal or Sandwich area?

Do you regularly throw away cardboard, bubble wrap, cardboard tubes, packaging materials and other unwanted goods?

Are you paying to have these unwanted goods taken away?

Stop!

You can save yourself money and recycle your unwanted goods for free. They can be used to help save other businesses in the Dover Deal and Sandwich area money.

There are businesses and organisations in the Dover Deal and Sandwich area who will take your items to recycle for free as they can make use of your unwanted goods in their own business.

Here is a list of local businesses who can recycle your unwanted goods and details of what they want.

Here is a list of local businesses and details of the unwanted goods they are throwing out.

Can you recycle your unwanted goods to help another business or organisation?

Contact any of the businesses listed in the Dover Deal and Sandwich area and start saving money and protecting environment today.

If you would like to recycle the unwanted items you are throwing out,

contact the Offices at

The Best Of Dover Deal and Sandwich

01304 362563

and get your business or organisation listed on this recycling page.

White Cliffs Freegle ... recycle your 'stuff' for free

Running since 2005 White Cliffs Freegle offers a free recycling service - a great way to recycle old furniture, cricket bats and old washers... join the scheme at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WhiteCliffsFreegle/  for more general information about the scheme see http://www.freegle.org.uk/

How it works

Freegle is an email list hosted on Yahoo! Groups that allows you to give stuff away when you need to get rid of it but don’t want to throw it in the bin. Or save something from landfill by asking for it; perhaps someone has just what you need that they were about to throw away.
For example:

1. You have a washing machine you don’t need and may need to take to the tip.
2. You join your local Freegle group.
3. You post an OFFER on the list, seen by everyone who looks on the site or receives messages in their inbox (members get to choose whether to receive all messages or just view online)
   OFFER: washing machine (just off High St)
   Old and noisy but working washing machine available.
4. Interested members will reply to you privately.
5. You choose who you would like to give it to.
6. Between you, you arrange for them to come and pick up the washing machine.
7. It gets collected.
8. You’ve given away your machine with little effort, and you also got to meet someone new from your neighbourhood in the process.
9. Someone local to you who needed your unwanted machine can now use it, fix it or use parts for spares.
10. It didn’t go into landfill. Great for both you and our planet. Everyone wins!

Likewise, if you need an item you can request one on the list in the same way and if someone has what you’d like they will contact you off-list to offer it.
The group moderators will be happy to help you if you need any advice about any part of the above process.

Freegle
in Dover, Deal and Sandwich in Kent.
Don't throw it away! Give it away!
Keep your unwanted goods out of landfill by offering them to others to be reused or recycled.
All items offered must be FREE and LEGAL

FreeCycle ....

Got a unwanted fridge, bunk bed or lawnmower you want to get rid of but want to send it to a good home - then use FreeCycle - the online free recycling service ...http://groups.freecycle.org/DoverFreecycle/posts/all

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

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

Recycle batteries at Deal Library

KCC are now recycling batteries at all Kent Libraries - You should find a special battery box inside the Library http://ow.ly/1ftwq 

You can also recycle at the following:

• Coop Mill Hill
• Boots High St
• Sainsburys
• Somerfield
• SouthWall depot
• St Margaret's Parish Council have also organised collection points