Saturday 26 April 2014

Recycle your aerosols

Each year on average, the UK uses around 600 million aerosols – that works out at 27 households a year. The main body of an aerosol is usually made from tin-plated steel or aluminium, both of which are 100 per cent recyclable.

You can recycle any aerosol cans in Shropshire really easily.  Either pop them in your box at home with your cans and plastic or drop them off at your nearest recycling site with the cans, tins and aluminium foil.

Please remember:

  • Make sure it is empty

  • Do not attempt to pierce or squash the can

  • Place in with your kerbside recycling box (or take it to a recycling centre)

Tuesday 22 April 2014

Church Stretton children learning about recycling

Children from St Laurence’s Parent and Toddlers group in Church Stretton have been helping to remind residents to recycle their aluminium foil as part of their annual Easter egg hunt this week.

Its all part of the new Metal Matters campaign which encourages us all to make our 'metal matter' by recycling more of the aluminium foil, cans, tins and aerosols we use. With a whopping 400,000 Easter Eggs set to be eaten across Shropshire in the coming weeks we think now is a good time to remind everyone that the metal foil around your chocolate can easily be recycled at home, just put it in your recycling box with your cans.

Thursday 17 April 2014

Spring Fair (and plant sale) 26th April 2014

Plant stallLook out for our volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters this coming Saturday 26th April 2014 10 am to 4 pm at the Shropshire Wildlife Trust visitor centre on Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury. 

Join us for a blooming wild event. There will be a range of inspirational talks on creating space for wildlife in your garden, on your land or simply in a window box. Alongside our expert home composting display and demonstration there will be workshops to guide you in making your own birdboxes, bug hotels, feeders and sculptures.  Plus a huge plant sale, with locally produced and organic plants to compliment the delicious refreshments, craft demonstrations and free children's activities.

So come on down and find out more about home composting and how to generally green your garden and help tread more lightly on the planet. 

Its FREE entry all day!

Tuesday 1 April 2014

Metal Matters to Shropshire

Shropshire Council and their contractor Veolia are working in partnership with recycling industry body Alupro to encourage residents across Shropshire to recycle more metal as part of their ‘Metal Matters’ campaign.  Volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters will be helping man roadshow events across the county in the coming months to help remind residents to recycle more cans, tins, aerosols, aluminium trays and foil.  
 

Leaflets produced with sponsorship from Alupro will soon be dropping through letterboxes reminding people to recycle more metal food and drinks packaging using their kerbside recycling service.

Rick Hindley, Chief Executive of Alupro added “The aim of MetalMatters is to help increase metal recycling by positively changing residents behaviour.” 

“Our partnership with Shropshire Council and Veolia delivers on all counts. It reinforces our experience with previous MetalMatters campaigns that investment in householder communications can make a real difference to recycling capture rates, and go on to deliver cost-effective results for local authorities and their waste management partners.  For more information on the campaign visit www.metalmatters.org.uk

Metal recycling facts:

• Recycling a tonne of steel saves 1.5 tonnes of iron ore & reduces CO2 emissions by 80%.
• Recycling a tonne of aluminium saves 9 tonnes of C02 emissions and four tonnes of bauxite – the raw material from which aluminium is made.
• Metal can be recycled again and again indefinitely.
• Recycling seven cans saves enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 26 hours.
• In as little as six weeks, the empty can you put in your recycling could be transformed and back on the supermarket shelf.