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18 November 2024

Full Parish Council Meeting

Axford Village Hall Monday 7:45 pm View Details

Upcoming Parish Events

Marlborough History Society

19:30 - 21:30 14/11/2024
St Peter's Church Marlborough

Christmas Bingo

19:00 - 22:30 30/11/2024
Axford Village Hall

Bella Voce A Seasonal Celebration of Song

19:30 - 21:30 07/12/2024
Holy Cross Church

Pencil it in - Ramsbury Horticultural Society Guest Speaker

19:30 - 21:30 03/02/2025

Pencil it in - Ramsbury Horticultural Society Guest Speaker

19:30 - 22:00 03/03/2025

Bella Voce Choir Summer Concert

- 06/07/2025
Holy Cross Church

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Recycling CABLES Marlborough HRC open 10-4 Wed-Sun

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October 2024
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29 October 2024

Welcome to the October edition of Recycling: Let’s Sort It News, your waste and recycling newsletter from Wiltshire Council.

In the newsletter this month:

  • Use it again, and again, and again – upcoming repair cafes
  • The Great Cable Challenge – International E-Waste Day
  • Household Recycling Centres switch to their winter opening times
  • National Recycle Week
  • Monthly Myth Buster
  • Recycling tip of the month
  • Double agent: Rethink your glass bottles
  • ‘Tis the season to be sustainable


Use it again, and again, and again – upcoming repair cafes

Save money and resources by using items again and again and again!


The Great Cable Challenge – International E-Waste Day

International E-Waste Day took place on 14 October 

Almost all of us have unwanted, broken cables clogging up our drawers, or have considered binning that flimsy cable when it broke. That’s thousands of kilograms of precious copper going to waste, which could be recycled into anything from lifesaving hospital equipment to electric vehicles.

Cables contain copper which is one of the most precious materials on our planet and essential to our everyday lives. We use copper in our phones, transport, clean energy, lifesaving equipment and the green technology revolution.

Let’s keep recycling, taking one small action to make a big difference. Gather up your old cables, and any other old electricals you find in your drawer of doom! Simply take them to your local Household Recycling Centre or recycle them through the small electricals kerbside collection service.


Household Recycling Centres switch to their winter opening times

On 1 November all Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) will switch to their annual winter opening hours. The opening hours of all 10 of our HRCs will be 10am to 4pm on each day that they’re open.

Salisbury, Trowbridge and Stanton St Quinton HRCs will be closed for an additional day a week so will not be operating on Thursdays and Fridays.

If you are visiting one of our recycling centres, remember to sort out your waste before you arrive so that together we can recycle as much as possible.


National Recycle Week

This month we were delighted to join this year’s Recycle Week (14 – 20 October). Now in its twenty-first year, Recycle Week  is the UK’s biggest celebration of recycling, shining a light on the nation’s recycling habits through activities happening across the UK.

This year’s theme, Rescue Me, aimed to empower people to look out for the five items missed most often in recycling collections because they are placed in the household waste bin. This is also a key theme of our ongoing Recycling: Let’s Sort It campaign.

These items included empty aerosols, yoghurt pots, toilet roll tubes, cleaning spray bottles and cans which can be recycled in your blue-lidded bin or bag. To help us achieve our goal of recycling more of Wiltshire’s waste, make sure you are recycling more of the right things, more often.

Materials collected for recycling from Wiltshire residents are sent to re-processors to be turned into new products or raw materials to go back into the manufacturing process.

Throughout recycle week we spotlighted commonly missed items on our social media so make sure you’re following us on Facebook and X.


Monthly Myth Buster

Myth – the waste from my household bin gets sent to landfill.

Fact– the waste collected from your household waste bin is sent to one of our energy from waste facilities (EfW), with only 14.9% of Wiltshire’s household waste being sent to landfill in the financial year 2023 to 2024.

We work hard to reduce the amount waste that is sent to landfill. Recycling is not the only way we do this. In addition to recycling, in the financial year 2023 to 2024, we diverted 41.4% of Wiltshire's waste from landfill using waste treatment processes which can reclaim some energy from waste.



Recycling tip of the month

Remember, remember that you can recycle chocolate foil wrappers, kitchen foil, aluminium pot lids and foil food trays.

Small recyclables can get lost during the recycling sorting process, so once clean, scrunch these items together to form a ball and place in your blue-lidded bin or bag.


Double agent – rethink your glass bottles!

This month we are introducing a new feature, uncovering items which are double agents in disguise. Some items have dual uses, and we will be spotlighting these to help you reduce your waste, save money and get creative!

Whilst glass bottles such as gin, wine, and prosecco are primarily used to store those drinks, they can double up as other useful items…

  1. Water carafe – instead of buying a new water carafe for hosting guests, why not reuse your old glass bottles?
  2. Decorations – glass bottles can make lovely table pieces for at home, weddings or parties. Why not try adding fairy lights, a candle or leftover ribbon.

‘Tis the season to be sustainable

It’s nearly the most wonderful ( and wasteful…) time of the year again!

Many of us will already be starting to think about Christmas shopping ahead of the big day, but did you know,according to research carried out by Censuswide in 2022, around half of UK adults say they have received gifts they don’t want at Christmas.

Before you start your Christmas shopping, here are some top tips to reduce the chances of your gifts going to waste and to be more sustainable this festive season:

  • Gift an experience – give the gift of memories by gifting an experience. This reduces the demand for physical resources, but also gives the recipient something to look forward to after Christmas.
  • Choose recyclable wrapping paper – wrapping paper made from paper and free of glitter can be recycled but laminated or foil paper can’t. If you can scrunch it and it doesn’t spring back, you can recycle it.
  • Think less is more – choose quality items that will last a long time and that your loved ones will use.
  • Save money and resources by gifting pre-loved items this Christmas – research is showing that one in three people would give a quality used or refurbished item to a loved one at Christmas. Be part of the growing trend and find second-hand gems that your family and friends will love.
  • When food shopping, avoid plastic waste by choosing loose fruit and vegetables – this tip applies all year round. WRAP research has shown that if all apples, bananas and potatoes were sold loose, we could save 60,000 tonnes of food waste by enabling people to buy closer to their needs.



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