Waste and recycling

In 2007 - 2008, over 112,500 tonnes of household waste was produced in North Somerset, with 70,437 tonnes going to landfill. A large amount of this could be recycled or reused if it was sorted before collection.

The zero waste challenge week runs from Monday 29 September to Sunday 5 October.

During this week we are challenging you not to throw anything away. Join in and be part of the award winning zero waste challenge to see how little you can throw away during the week.

Your new yellow pages directory for 2008 - 2009 will be delivered soon, please recycle you old directroy in your green box, at the recycling bank or recycling centres.

To protect our environment we need to reduce our waste as much as possible, this will help to keep council tax as low as possible and avoid paying expensive landfill fines and chages.

The amount of recycling we are collecting is increasing from the Kerbside Recycling schemes, Recycling Centres and Recycling banks and our latest recycling rate is 34%.

We are trying to encourage recycling by making it easier to dispose of recyclable products such as glass, card, paper, cans, plastics and cartons. We are doing this by:

• Collecting, green waste, refuse and your green box on the same day of the week
  
• Use the collection calendar search to find your next green box, green waste and refuse collection dates and download a calendar.
  
• We have increased the number of plastic recycling banks to eight sites across North Somerset.
  
• You can now recycle paper based food and drink cartons at six special banks throughout the district.

For more information on waste and recycling contact Streets and Open Spaces