Spring 2012 - Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

Cut out and
keep checklist
to recycle all
you can
About 50% of what’s
thrown away could be
recycled. Only 24%* is
being recycled in the
borough at the moment.
Yes please
• All plastic bottles, such as drinks,
milk, cleaning products and
shampoo bottles
(Please remove lids)
• All aluminium and steel cans,
such as drinks, food and pet
food cans
• Empty aerosols
• All unlined cardboard
packaging and boxes, such as
cereal and food boxes
• All clean paper, such as
newspapers, magazines,
junk mail, directories and
Yellow Pages
No thanks
• Plastic packaging, such as
polystyrene, cellophane, yoghurt
pots, margarine tubs, food trays
and flower pots
• Plastic carrier bags
• Bottle tops
• Drinks cartons, such as milk and
orange juice cartons
• Shredded paper
• Gift wrap
* unaudited figures
10 Basingstoke & Deane Today
Glass recycling
for more residents
All residents in the borough are due to get
kerbside glass recycling by the end of June.
Following on from the success of the first phase of the glass recycling collection service
residents in the second phase will be receiving their recycling boxes shortly in the run up
to the collections starting next month (April).
This will mean that residents in parts of Brighton Hill, South Ham, Worting, Popley,
Chineham, Oakley, Black Dam, Basingstoke town centre, Kempshott, Tadley, Silchester,
Oakridge, Whitchurch and Overton will be able to put all their glass bottles and jars,
without corks or tops, out for collection in their new box. The box then needs to be placed
out alongside residents’ green recycling bins for emptying by 7am on the usual collection
day. All the remaining residents in the borough will then get the service two months later,
so that every home in the borough will be covered.
Residents cannot put items such as light bulbs, glass panes, lead crystal glass, glass
ovenware and, of course, any non-glass items in the box. The glass collected is sent to a
reprocessing plant, where it is colour sorted and then used to make new bottles and jars.
The first phase of the new fortnightly service was introduced last July and has collected
over 200 tonnes of glass since it started.
The glass collection service is being introduced thanks to a £1 million saving through joint
waste and recycling collections with neighbouring Hart District Council.
For more information see www.basingstoke.gov.uk/go/recycle,
email recycling@basingstoke.gov.uk or call 01256 844844.
Pruning the cost of garden waste collections
Green fingered recyclers are being offered even better value from the garden waste
service with extra collections and bags for the same price as last year.
The service collects grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, cut flowers, weeds, leaves,
twigs and prunings on the same weekday fortnightly from February until the week of
10 December 2012. The cost is still £28 per year but this year residents get two sacks
rather than one. And anyone signing up later in the year will only pay for remaining
collections, not the full charge as before.
Everything collected in the large hard wearing green garden waste bags is composted
locally to produce bags of Pro-Grow, high quality organic soil conditioner to help
gardens grow. Last year over 4,000 people in the borough joined the scheme, sending
an impressive 1,000 tonnes of garden waste for composting.
To sign up see www.basingstoke.gov.uk/go/gardenwaste to complete
an online form or call 01256 844844.