The countdown to Christmas has started, and across Shropshire a huge effort is going into encouraging us all to keep the party going by remembering to keep recycling over the festive period. Its been a vintage year for recycling in Shropshire and its great that we are recycling more at home than ever before and for three quarters of us recycling is now a way of life.
And the great news is, the recycling rate for Shropshire has increased again to around 53% of all domestic waste now being recycled.
Over Christmas and New Year is a time for entertaining and we all know that with all those extra guests we'll be having a few cheeky drinks so there is going to be more glass bottles and cans to recycle in particular. The good news is the Council are now doing their bit too by helping us all to recycle our extra plastic not just bottles, but plastic pots, tubs and trays. So as well as paper, cans, tins, aerosols, tin foil, glass bottles and jars they now pick up plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, so this Christmas all those plastic trays from biscuits, chocolates and mince pies can go for recycling now, helping to reduce what ends up in the bin.
Remember that despite the rescheduled dates all the recycling collections keep going over the festive season including the garden waste service. So assuming we're not completely snowed under all that Christmas recycling can be put out in your boxes and will be picked up by the crews and taken to the recycling centre. So although we will all be busy over this period, lets keep a good thing going and keep recycling.
Find out about when your re-scheduled recycling pick ups are due by visiting www.shropshire.gov.uk/binday
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