Recycling update

At the May 2019 Parish Meeting’s AGM there was a discussion on recycling, raising concern about the amount of plastic that we cannot recycle in our green recycling bins. Following on from that, to show what can go into the green bins, here is the link to the relevant part of WCC’s website:https://www.winchester.gov.uk/waste-recycling/recycling-collection This gives more detail than is on the stickers on the inside of the lid of our green bins. These stickers have not been updated for some years but are mostly up to date, an exception being that, as appears from the link, empty aerosols can now go into the green bins. The link also gives details of where some items that cannot go in the green bins can be taken for recycling.

As far as plastic is concerned, only bottle shaped items can be recycled via the green bins at the moment, as the existing ‘sorting‘ equipment can only identify and pull out bottle shaped items, so regrettably, other plastic items go to landfill.

The Council should have a new recycling contract in 2020 and it is hoped that then the ‘sorting’ equipment will be better and so more plastic items can be recycled. At that stage the stickers will be updated.

Sainsbury’s has linked up with Palm Recycling and the Badger Farm store has a recycling bin which takes more than our WCC green bins - see the attached photo. Palm does not currently have anything nearer to Warnford although it may extend its coverage to include other Sainsbury’s store but not in the immediate future.

I am looking for other places where one can recycle more things, if anyone knows of anywhere else one can recycle items not accepted by our green bins, please do let me know.