Maidstone Borough Council 5 Thank you for recycling your food waste
Just a couple of months in and Maidstone council’s new food waste collection service is a big success. Since the end of January the facts speak for themselves:
Up to 80% of households are using the new food waste scheme
Every week more than 100 tonnes of food waste is sent for recycling into compost to grow more food.
The amount of waste collected in grey rubbish bins and sent for disposal to the Allington Incinerator has decreased by 37%.
More than 60% of waste can now be easily recycled in Maidstone with the new food waste collections, mixed recycling collections and local recycling sites.
All paper, card, food and drinks cans, aerosols, foil, yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and ice cream tubs can be recycled in green recycling bins.
Textiles, books, shoes and glass can be recycled at local recycling sites.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to residents for their support which has pushed Maidstone’s recycling rate to more than 40% already!
Garden Waste
Maidstone Borough Council’s home compost bin offer is still available to help turn garden waste into compost. Information is available at
www.maidstone.gov.uk.
Alternatively you can purchase Maidstone Borough Council’s compostable garden sacks from more than 50 retailers throughout the borough or hire a garden waste bin for £30 a year by calling 01622 602600.
Making Maidstone Borough Count
The 2011 Census is underway and it is very important that everyone gets their forms in because the results determine the funding given to councils and health authorities.
In 2001, when the last census was held, 96% of forms were returned in our borough. This is a high rate of return but if everyone had replied Maidstone would have received an estimated extra £3 million a year to spend on services or to keep council tax rates lower.
Kent Clinic on
map by 2013 Six hundred new jobs, with an average salary of £53,000, will be created for the borough when a new medical centre opens at Newnham Park. It will provide advanced and highly specialised procedures and care in areas such as cardiology and neurology for private and NHS patients.
The Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery will be built on the 28.5 hectare site next to Junction 7 of the M20.
www.maidstonesdream.co.uk Green light for Maidstone
High Street Maidstone council has agreed funding for a start to be made on Maidstone’s flagship High Street regeneration project.
And the cabinet has agreed the design of the first phase from the Chequers Mall to Pudding Lane and all of Bank Street.
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