Wake up to Waste in Somerset

Welcome to your Somerset Recycling Website - designed to provide Somerset residents information on reducing, reusing and recycling our household waste.

May & August 2008 Bank Holiday Household Recycling & Refuse Collection Day Changes
Bank Holidays		Revised Collections
May Day - 5th May 08 Late Spring - 26th May 08 Summer - 25th August 08		All collections these weeks will be one day later than usual. i.e. Monday collected on a Tuesday, Friday collected on a Saturday.
Compost Awareness Week Roadshows & Competition
Compost Awareness Week is being celebrated nationally from Sunday 4th to Saturday 10th May. The aim is to encourage more people to recognise the benefits of home composting. There are a number of compost roadshows during the week: Thursday 8th May - 10am until 3pm - Sanders Garden World, Highbridge Friday 9th May - 10am until 3pm - Monkton Elm Garden Centre, Taunton Saturday 10th May - 10am until 4pm - Cannington Wisteria Festival WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) are once again running their "Golden Bin Competition". Residents who place an order during the week for one of the local authority promoted compost bins will be eligible for the chance to win £50 worth of garden gift vouchers. Click here for the Somerset Waste Partnership's compost bin offer. Every person who buys a bin, whether by telephone, website or post between 4th-10th May will automatically be entered into a prize draw.



Love Food Hate Waste!
		Somerset has joined the national Love Food Hate Waste Campaign, aimed at reducing the amount of waste we throw away every year.

Somerset Waste Partnership Launches SORT IT PLUS


Somerset Waste Partnership launches trial collections of cardboard and plastic bottles in parts of Taunton Deane, Sedgemoor and Mendip.

Recycle your energy saving bulbs
		Residents can recycle their old energy saving bulbs at the Household Waste Recycling Centres.

Lights, camera, recycling action!
		Click here to view the six winning films at this year's SWAP Film Competition.

New Carton Recycling now available
		Somerset residents can now recycle their cartons at recycling banks across Somerset.

Pledge to Recycle! Cricket stars 'knock waste for six!'
		Somerset cricket stars Marcus Trescothick and Neil Edwards launched the 'Pledge to Recycle' campaign. The cricketers pledged to recycle their waste.

Recycling - what goes where?
		Find out what happens to the materials that you recycle.

Currently we recycle 47% of this waste, much higher than the national average of 27%, but we want to go higher! Somerset is aiming to recycle half of it's household waste - so we need everyone to 'Wake-up-to-Waste'! and work together to meet and exceed this target.

	Liners for food waste bins For more information click here
	Cloth nappies To find out more ... click here
	Fed up with junk mail? Click here to request our Junk Mail Pack
	Household waste collections Click here to find out more ...
	What's in your bin? Click here to find out what is in the average 'Somerset Bin'
	To find out more ... click here
	Pledge to recycle! Join over 2,300 people in Somerset who have pledged to recycle

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