Here are a few New Year’s resolutions to help everyone get into the habit of reducing waste:
- Reduce your waste – buy only what you need and try to buy with little packaging.
- Reuse what you can – buy products that can be reused (rechargeable batteries, bottles instead of cans etc), take old carrier bags or reusable bags with you when you go shopping and use cleaned bottles and jars to store odds and ends in. Donate your old clothes and books to charity shops.
- Recycle as much as you can – and buy products with recycled content. Use our current recycling service and bring sites to recycle things.
- Donate your furniture – if you’re looking to replace your fridge or freezer this year but it’s still in working order, don’t throw it away; donate it to the Surrey Reuse Network instead. Check out Furnistore, a furniture re-use charity, who are based in Redhill.
- Look out for details over the coming months of what you can recycle as part of the Council’s new recycling and refuse collection service, which will collect more materials from your home, and pledge to recycle more when it starts.
For more information, please visit the Borough Council’s new recycling and refuse collection service page or scan the links on the right for relevant local websites.