Real Christmas Tree Collections
The Waste Strategy Team and participating Parish Councils have organised for residents to place their real Christmas trees out for collection at specific points throughout the district in early January. To find out where/when these collections take place click here.
Innovative scheme to reuse white goods
An initiative to help reuse white goods and give them to low-income families has been launched at Daventry District Council.
Every week the council collects dozens of broken and discarded washing machines, dishwashers and other white goods as part of its household waste collections. These appliances are usually sent off to be recycled, but now an organisation called Goods Again has come up with an innovative idea to reuse them instead.
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District maintains impressive recycling record
Daventry district has remained in the top ten places in the country for recycling green waste.
According to new figures published this month by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Daventry District Council has the 10th best record for recycling green waste in the country with 29 per cent.
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Aluminium tree planting marks recycling commitment
A tree made from aluminium cans has been planted at Daventry Country Park in recognition of the district’s continued commitment to recycling.
Youngsters from The Grange School in Staverton Road made a tree from aluminium drinks cans on December 4, along with Daventry District Council’s Street Scene Officer and Countryside Rangers.
The Waste Strategy Team would also like to thank Bernhards Nursery, Rugby for their support in this event.
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Kerbside collections now take your Yellow Pages & White Envelopes
Yellow Pages directories and white envelopes with windows can now be left out for collection and recycling in the red box.
Due to advancements in the pulping process used by the re-processor, it is now easy to recycle unwanted white envelopes and Yellow Pages directories alongside, magazines, newspapers, BT directories, letters and flyers in the red boxes.
Yellow Pages directories should have any plastic bag covering removed before being placed in the red kerbside box.
White envelopes can also now be accepted, even if they have a clear window on them.
Brown envelopes should be placed in the brown bin – provided they don’t have a see-through window.
The enhanced service will not affect schools wanting to participate in the annual Yellow Woods challenge to recycle as many Yellow Pages as possible. Schools taking part will simply need to produce the front cover of copies already recycled through the kerbside collection service.
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