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Bin Collection Timetable for Christmas 2011 and New Year 2012
| Usual Collection Day |
Revised Collection Day |
| Monday 26th December 2011 |
Tuesday 27th December 2011 |
| Tuesday 27th December 2011 |
Wednesday 28th December 2011 |
| Wednesday 28th December 2011 |
Thursday 29th December 2011 |
| Thursday 29th December 2011 |
Friday 30th December 2011 |
| Friday 30th December 2011 |
Saturday 31st December 2011 |
| Monday 2nd January 2012 |
Tuesday 3rd January 2012 |
| Tuesday 3rd January 2012 |
Wednesday 4th January 2012 |
| Wednesday 4th January 2012 |
Thursday 5th January 2012 |
| Thursday 5th January 2012 |
Friday 6th January 2012 |
| Friday 6th January 2012 |
Saturday 7th January 2012 |
Remember, large cardboard boxes can be flattened and left at the side of your blue bin and please don't put recyclables inside your black bin.
After the success of previous years' Christmas Tree Recycle Schemes, which saw Babergh working with town and parish councils to get rid of unwanted trees, there are plans to provide a similar service over the period of January 2012. Peter Garnett, Babergh’s Waste Strategy Officer, explains what people can do:
"Babergh would like to encourage all residents to take their Christmas trees to a local collection point that their Parish Council might be offering. Typically they’ll be on village greens, in the car parks, somewhere central, somewhere convenient central to where residents live. This will mean that Christmas trees will no longer go to landfill but will be recycled and composted back to a useful resource."
Listen to to this article:
 Christmas Tree Recycling Scheme (MP3 - 22 seconds).
We’re frequently accused at Christmas with going over the top when it comes to food. A cautionary word from Babergh District Council’s Waste Strategy Officer, Peter Garnett:
"We all enjoy having good food at Christmas but a lot of food is wasted. It is estimated that a third of the food we buy ends up in the dustbin and half of that is edible food that is perfectly okay to eat. So we would encourage everyone to think a little bit carefully about the amounts of food they cook, the way they store the food and to make sure the food doesn’t go beyond the sell by dates. Its about buying sensibly, and avoiding unnecessary wastage. Don’t forget that composting is also a key part to recycling, vegetable peelings and fruit skins, tea bags and egg shells, they can all be composted and call all mean that your black bin is significantly reduced in weight."
Listen to this article:
Food Waste (MP3 - 37seconds).
Further information about what you can put in your compost bin - Home composting.
Help make this holiday season as green as possible. Babergh’s man in charge of Waste Strategy is Peter Garnett. He outlines his advice as we shop for the big day:
"To shop smartly, to shop locally, it is good for our shops and businesses, good for our local producers, for our growers, but it is also very good for global warming because it reduces the amount of transport that we incur by travelling further a field and we can all do our little bit to reduce the amount of packaging that is generated through the goods that we buy this Christmas."
Listen to this article:
Shop Smartly (MP3 - 21 seconds).
Christmas is a time when a lot of new electronic products are bought as gifts, which often means that old electronic products are no longer wanted. Therefore, consumers should think about using the waste electronic recycling facilities rather than throwing these items into their household waste bins so that more waste electronic items are recycled and fewer waste electronic items end up at landfill sites.
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