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Threads looking bare? Use our textile recycling service!
Did you know that you can recycle your clothes, textiles and shoes from home?
To take part, simply follow these steps:
1. Put your clothes and shoes into a standard sized carrier bag
2. Tie up the bag
3. Place the bag NEXT to your green recycling bin or blackbox on your recycling collection day
4. Remember! Please do not put any clothes, textiles or shoes INSIDE your recycling bin or box — they must be kept separate in order to be recycled.
We are unable to collect pillows and duvets, and we are unable to accept any items bagged in black sacks or charity bags. You can also take good quality items to local charity shops.
Love Kent, Hate Litter, 4 - 6 March 2016
Join us from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 March for special clean-up events, activities and competitions across the borough in conjunction with Keep Britain Tidy, ‘Love Kent, Hate Litter’ and ‘Clean for the Queen’.
Keep Britain Tidy has recently launched a ‘Clean for The Queen’ campaign (
www.cleanforthequeen.co.uk) to help celebrate Her Majesty's forthcoming 90th birthday. The campaign encourages people to get involved with the UK’s biggest ever clean-up, designed to make the places we live more beautiful. Food packaging, plastic bottles, takeaway meals and cigarette butts have all contributed to a growing menace that affects our wildlife, streets and countryside. To coincide with the national project and to add to our civic pride, Maidstone Borough Council is hoping to arrange a number of special clean up events, activities and competitions in conjunction with local community groups over the special weekend in March.
We’re looking for community groups who would like to get involved by hosting their own events or providing a small army of volunteers. We will provide support and guidance to help organise the event and where possible, will provide equipment such as litter pickers and bags. We’re also looking for businesses who can help in a number of ways including sponsoring an activity or donating a prize for our competitions.
To get involved, contact Martyn Jeynes, Operations Manager, at
martynjeynes@maidstone.gov.uk or on 01622 602110.
Councillor Marion Ring, Chairman of the Communities, Housing and Environment Committee, gets ready for The Big Maidstone Food Waste Challenge.
Resolve to reduce your waste!
Each year, many of us resolve to lose weight, floss more and better ourselves in some way but this year, why not resolve to be kinder and gentler to our planet? You may find it’s much easier (and more sustainable) than other resolutions you might have made!
If you aren’t already, why not try
recycling your food waste with our weekly food waste collection service? Simply collect food waste scraps and dispose of them in your small kitchen caddy then once full, empty it into your external food waste bin ready for weekly collection. The food will actually spend less time in your kitchen compared to using a larger kitchen bin! If you need a food waste bin, these can be ordered online at
www.maidstone.gov.uk or by calling our customer contact centre on 01622 602600.
Don’t forget to sign up to The Big Maidstone Food Waste Challenge, which promotes using the food waste bin rather than simply putting food waste into the rubbish bin. Find out more at
www.maidstone.gov.uk/foodwastechal lenge including how you could win tickets to Maidstone Leisure Centre or a gift voucher for the Mall Chequers shopping centre.
Please
remember, we will collect textile items on your RECYCLING
collection day.
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