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CHRISTMAS
RECYCING
Don't forget that a great deal of the extra refuse produced
in the home at Christmas can be recycled and doesn't need
to be put in your wheelie bin:
If wrapping paper is not fit to be reused you can put it
in your kerbside paper box. The same applies to Christmas
cards and old calendars, although there are always bins
in Smiths and most supermarkets for cards, which go to make
money for the Woodland Trust and other charities. Following
a couple of queries, I have checked with Waverley, and your
paper box is the place to put old phone directories, including
Yellow Pages.
Try to collect all your cardboard boxes together and make
one journey to Witley Community Recycling Centre, where
it is much quicker to tip it into their large skip than
post it in the supermarket containers, which are often full.
You could also offer to take someone else's if they are
less able than you! Thinking of cardboard, I have just realised
that the inner bag of cereal boxes can go in with plastic
bags (recycle at your supermarket) - it says so on Sainsbury's
cereals.
Christmas trees should be taken to the Witley Centre for
shredding.
And finally, if you are buying a new bra for all those Christmas
parties, your old one can be put in one of the bright pink
cardboard boxes that are now at local leisure centres -
Broadwater at Godalming or The Herons at Haslemere are our
closest. For your interest, the bras are sent out
to African countries where there is a big demand and the
money Waverley receives goes to Breast Cancer Research.
Nicki
Bates - Community Recycler
01252
702 671 or nickibates10@hotmail.com
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