Startling Facts
- Each year your family will use 6 trees worth of paper
- It takes 1 million years for a glass bottle to breakdown in a landfill site
- Each year we throw away 80 million drinks cans and food tins
- 20% of the food bought in a supermarket is thrown away uneaten - that's £424 for an average family in a year
- In one week the UK produces enough waste to fill Pride Park stadium twice over
- South Derbyshire residents throw away one tonne of rubbish per household every year the same weight as a family car)
With over 38,000 households in the District we have a BIG waste problem and we NEED YOUR HELP !
Together we have recycled or composted 36% of our household waste. Our plans to extend composting to all households and improve our recycling collection service, should improve this further next year and the following, so that by 2010 we should reach 40%. We still need to work hard to meet future recycling targets particularly as the amount of rubbish produced grows every year.
The solution to the waste problem is at hand - the wheelie bin isn't the only option for rubbish.
South Derbyshire offers many recycling centres, a kerbside recycling service, a composting collection scheme and a home composter discount scheme. Schools and voluntary groups can raise funds from recycling with our Cash for Trash scheme.
Recycling Pledge
If you'd like to start recycling or would like to do more, then make the pledge! Thank you for recycling.
Education
'Let's Kerb It' Education Pack
We can help schools and their Eco-Committees develop recycling projects, eg:
- Recycling vehicle visits (Multi-Material & Refuse Vehicle)
- Mobile Education & Exhibition Vehicle in conjunction with Derbyshire County Council
- Visits to Recycling & Compost Plants
- Recycling Plays
- Cash for Trash (this a money raising scheme for shools dependant on the number of tonnes of paper collected)
- Textile collection scheme for schools (this a money raising scheme for schools dependant on the number of tonnes of textiles collected)
Recycling Game
Test your football and recycling skills with this game Keep It Up - provided by Recycle Now
Useful Links
For more fascinating facts on Recycling visit:-
Environmental Services are proud to have been granted CharterMark
Waste Management Team
Environmental Services
South Derbyshire District Council
Civic Offices
Civic Way
Swadlincote
Derbyshire
DE11 0AH
Telephone: 01283 595795
Online:
online enquiry formEmail:
waste.cleansing@south-derbys.gov.ukpage ref: LGSL 851
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