School Waste Education Service — Tuesday 27 November 2007
What we can offer your school for waste education
The future of waste in Suffolk — Tuesday 09 October 2007
Tips on how to reduce, reuse and recycle more of your waste and information on how Suffolk County Council intends to dispose of waste in the future
Home Compost Bin - Suffolk Offer 2008 — Monday 20 August 2007
Composting at home is an easy way to transform garden & kitchen waste into a healthy soil improver for your plants & shrubs. Order your bin today ...
Sort It! So we can recycle your waste — Friday 23 December 2005
Have you ever wondered where
your rubbish goes? In Suffolk, most of it is buried in large holes in the ground - but these are filling up fast, and space is limited. We are throwing away more rubbish then ever before. Last year Suffolk homes generated enough rubbish to fill a staggering 70,000 dustcarts with rubbish.
Reducing your hazardous household waste — Tuesday 20 December 2005
We throw away household chemicals and other materials every day.
We produce about 5.0 million tonnes of hazardous waste in England and Wales a year. These are damaging to the environment if they are not disposed of correctly.
Each year, thousands of people are injured due to exposure or accident involving hazardous household products.
Recycling your waste glass — Tuesday 20 December 2005
Glass is one of the most recyclable resources available today. It is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without affecting the quality.
Suffolk households use an average of 331 bottles and jars a year, yet recycle less than a third of these. Once you’re in the habit recycling is easy. There are more than 200 glass banks in Suffolk.
Recycling your waste cans — Tuesday 20 December 2005
Steel and aluminium cans are 100% recyclable. Even the tin coating is reused. Recycling aluminium cans is better for the environment as 95% less energy is used compared to taking cans from new materials.
Aluminium fetches a high price. If all the aluminium cans and foil in Suffolk were recycled it could generate over half a million pounds!
Recycling your batteries — Tuesday 20 December 2005
Household batteries form an essential part of every day life. Your mobile phone, smoke detectors, torches, personal stereos, and children’s toys, all rely on battery power. An estimated six million batteries will be bought in Suffolk in a year but most batteries in the UK end up in landfill sites, where heavy metals may leak from them and pollute the environment. Read below for advice on buying, using and disposing of your household batteries.
Recycling your textiles — Tuesday 20 December 2005
Recycling textiles allows old clothing and fabric to be reused and reprocessed.
High quality second hand clothing can be sold for reuse, through charities either in the UK or abroad.
Medium grade textiles can be used for industry cleaning cloths and rags.
Low grade textiles are used to produce filling and
flocking for the furnishing industry.
Recycling your waste plastics — Tuesday 20 December 2005
In Britain, we use about 275,000 tonnes of plastic bottles in our homes every year â€" that’s about 15 million bottles every day.
Every week supermarkets across the Anglia Region hand out over 3 million plastic shopping bags.
Every plastic bag we throw away stays buried in the ground for up to 500 years before it finally rots. It takes about 25 recycled soft drink bottles to make one fleece jacket.
Recycling your waste paper — Tuesday 20 December 2005
Up to 1/3 of household rubbish is paper that can easily be recycled. Recycling helps you to slim your bin and conserve resources. A massive 81,000 tonnes of paper & cardboard were sent to landfill in Suffolk last year. That’s the equivalent of burying over 1 million trees.
Reducing your waste paint — Tuesday 20 December 2005
With increased interest in DIY, nothing brightens up a room like a fresh coat of paint. But up to a quarter of all paint bought never gets used!
If disposed of improperly leftover paint can pollute our landfills, sewers and streams. Follow the tips below on buying, choosing, using and disposing of paint to stop paint going to waste.
