[Article updated 27 June 2025]
PLASTICS AMNESTY Saturday 21 June 2025 A huge THANK YOU to those who came along to our third Plastics Amnesty on Saturday 21 June at The Anchor Inn.
WASUP members and Carol Philpott from Plastic Products Recycling at St Peters Church in Sandwich were on hand to collect your hard to recycle items and provide help and advice on where these and many other items can be recycled in future. WASUP have produced a really useful flyer (see below) giving details on how and where to recycle certain items which was also made available through the Community Newsletter.
Joining us on the day were the
The Refillable Van who visit The Anchor every third Saturday 9.45-10.30. Check out their website for more information - its so easy to refill your containers at their van or you can arrange a home visit.
Items being collected on the day were:-
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Batteries (household – not large batteries)
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Coffee pods (via Podpack. To sign up, go to:
https://podback.org) •
Digital Kent electrical items including:
Laptops, Desktop, All in One PCs, Tablets, Phones, Monitors (
NOT: TVs, Printers, Desk Fans, White Goods, Fax Machines, Servers). For more information on the Digital Kent recycling scheme see:
https://www.digitalkent.uk//information/projects/recycling•
Health and beauty products (any brand) bought from
Boots – just ‘hard to recycle’ items that you can’t already recycle at the kerbside. For example: toothpaste tubes, lotion pumps, make-up palettes, compacts, lipsticks, travel minis, samples, mascaras. For more info see:
https://www.boots.com/shopping/boots-recycling-scheme/recycle-at-boots-accepted-items•
Pens & biros – used
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Pill blister packs - empty please
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Plant pots (cleaned plastic plant pots can be recycled at B&Q)
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Plastic Products Recycling for St Peter’s Church will collect:
Biscuit wrappers, bread bags, cheese wrappers, laundry products, pringles tubes, marigold gloves, disposable gloves, Ferrero Rocher, used ink cartridges, jewellery, watches, mobile phones, tablets, cameras, coins, stamps (
NOT: Home phones, Laptops, Batteries, Tetrapaks, Glass, cans). Click
HERE to read their full list with further details.
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Tetrapaks - empty and flattened. The recycling scheme is being run by Ace UK
https://www.ace-uk.co.uk/ and there are several places locally that currently have one of these collection bins:- Canterbury HWRC, Vauxhall Road; Tesco, Millstrood Road, Whitstable; Tesco Extra, White Cliffs Park, Dover; Tesco, Manston Road, Ramsgate.
PLEASE NOTE: Items NOT collected were: items you can easily recycle at the kerbside or at your local supermarket; large items that should be taken to the local Household Waste Recycling Centre.