[Article updated 26.6.24 & 28.8.24]
PLASTICS AMNESTY Saturday 22 June 2024 A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came along to our first Plastics Amnesty on Saturday 22 June at The Anchor Inn.
WASUP members and invited guests 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. We produced a really useful flyer giving details on how and where to recycle certain items which we hope to make available to you all through the Community Newsletter.
We will be holding a similar event on
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 2024 10.00-11.30 at The Anchor and will also be collecting Tetrapaks/drinks cartons!
We're really grateful to
The Refillable Van and the
DDC Community Roots Van which will also be joining us for the morning. Come along to refill your containers from Sue and The Refillable Van and meet DDC Officers who can help advise on any DDC matter.
These are the things we will collect:-
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Batteries (household – not large batteries)
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Coffee pods (currently only plastic ones via Podpack)
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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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Plastic Products Recycling for St Peter’s Church will collect:
Biscuit wrappers, bread bags, cheese wrappers, dishwasher pouches, laundry products, pringles tubes, marigold gloves, disposable gloves, storage containers, Ferrero Rocher, Dental products, used ink cartridges, jewellery, watches, mobile phones, tablets, cameras, coins, stamps (
NOT: Home phones, Laptops, Batteries, Tetrapaks, Glass). 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 HRWC, Vauxhall Road; Tesco, Millstrood Road, Whitstable; Tesco Extra, White Cliffs Park, Dover; Tesco, Manston Road, Ramsgate.
PLEASE NOTE: We will NOT take items you can easily recycle at the kerbside or at your local supermarket; or large items that should be taken to the local Household Waste Recycling Centre.