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If you have a passion for recycling like myself and enjoy going to music festivals then I may know of the perfect opportunity for you to help promote recycling this summer. Reading festival are looking for volunteers to help promote their recycling initiatives at the festival in August. Check out their website http://www.readingfestival.com/info/index.aspx?id=406 I have just submitted my form so fingers crossed!

How did recycling week go for you? Did you manage to recycle unwanted electrical items? I took an unwanted TV to my local British Heart Foundation, and I borrowed a lawnmower from my Dad instead of buying a new one. Please don’t forget to recycle all your unwanted electrical items at your nearest BHF shop it’s for a good cause too!

This year Recycle Week will take place between 21 – 27 June. The focus  this year will be on small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). People are going to be encouraged to recycle their electical equipment as well as making a pledge to hire, borrow and reuse items instead of buying electrical products in the future. http://www.recyclenow.com/

British Heart Foundation are the charity partner teaming up with recycle now to promote recycling week. Our nearest BHF furniture and Electrical store is at: 40-41 White Rock, Hastings.

Garden waste collections.

The good weather which we have recently recieved, has seen the increased usage of the garden waste wheelie bins. This is great news, last week we collected 271.4 tonnes of garden waste, which meant we recycled 48.2% of  waste produced.  Keep up the good work Rother!

In Briton the average person throws away £13.30 worth of wasted food per month, a total of £159.60 per year. Just think what you could use this money for instead! Nationwide this amounts to   £7,660,800,000 of food ending up in the bin each year. Yoghurts, sandwich meat and lettuce are the most commons things to throw away. In the western world this amounts to 30% of our household waste collected from our homes.

We need to prevent this food from being wasted in the first place and think of ways to do this: e.g. planning ahead when food shopping, only buy what you need, look at how we store the food and understand the useby dates.

Obviously we understand there is going to be some food waste especially from fuit and vegetable scraps/ peelings, tea bags and egg shells. For these compostable items home composters and the green cone are great for disposing of such items, which means your preventing toxic green house gasses being emitted into the environment, at the same time your producing compost for the garden.

Green cone limited sell the green cones and composters- their website is  http://www.greencone.com/

Thursday 11th February saw the majority of the South East covered in snow and ice, which lead to collections in Rother being suspended. Today the collection crews have started their rounds late due to the treacherous weather conditions on most residential roads and pavements.

We ask if residents can keep their wheelie bins and boxes out at the normal collection point, as crews will be catching up yesterdays work today, tomorrow and into next week if need be.

Thank you for bearing with us during this difficult operational period. We apologise for the inconvenience caused, but we are sure you will understand the reasons for this. please refer to Rother District Council’s website for the lastest information on refuse and recycling collectios http://www.rother.gov.uk/

Today (1st Feb) sees garden waste collections reinstated for residents of Rother. Thank-you for bearing with us and understanding the need to cancel the garden waste collections through the bad weather conditions experienced in January. If you wish to check your collection day/ schedule please refer to Rother District Council’s website. http://www.webapps1.rother.gov.uk/cleanseonline/EnquireAbout.aspx

Eco Products

There are now many electrical products on the market that reduce the impact on the environment. Take a look at the recycle now website http://www.recyclenow.com/
 Eco products are sustainable products which use ways to reduce their environmental impact. Several ways of doing this are:

I’m particular impressed with the mobile phone which has a solar pannel to charge the phone and the casing is made from recycled plastic bottles, it also has a built in pedometer which calculates how much C02 emissions have been reduced by walking instead of taking the car.

Monday 18th Jan saw our refuse and recycling collections return to normal. Collections will return to your usual collection day and schedule this week. If you are unsure if your refuse or recycling is to be collected, please refer to Rother District Councils website http://www.rother.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4954

Garden waste collections are suspended until week commencing 1st February, due to the vehicles being used to assist with the catch up of collections which were cancelled due to the severe weather conditions.

Please note Clinical waste collections are operating as usual. We thank you for being patient through this difficult operational period and apologise for any inconvenience which may have been caused.

Due to the weather conditions still causing havoc in Rother, collections have been suspended today Friday 8th January and tomorrow Saturday 9th January.   

For the time being it has been agreed that 6 refuse lorry’s will be placed in static positions as follows for areas covered by todays work (Friday 8th):

• Turkey Road – Opposite the Rose and Crown
• Sidley High Street – By Recycling Car Park
• West Parade (De La Warr Pavilion – Richmond Road) – Opposite the Clock Tower
• East Parade (De La Warr – Galley Hill) – By Public Toilets
• Cooden Sea Road – By Railway Station
• Pear tree Lane – In Cowdray Park Road (By shop)

Residents are welcome to bring their waste to these collection points.

These vehicles will be in situ from 08:30 to 12:00 unless the weather conditions deteriorate. Our vehicles will not be moving from these points to collect from any other road under any circumstance, as the normal collections are suspended.

For latest information please refer to Rother District Councils website http://www.rother.gov.uk/

As the weather is still being unpredictable and the snow and ice has created dangerous road conditions, we have had to suspended all catch up collections across Rother tomorrow Saturday 9th January.

 Tomorrow we will again have 6 refuse lorry’s placed in static positions where residents will be able to bring their wheelie bins to dispose of their refuse, the locations of the Vehicles will be:

• Holliers Hill – By Chantry Avenue
• Seabourne Rd- By the Co-op
• Gunter’s Lane- By Bexhill High Scholl
• Town Hall Square- Car park 
• Dorset Road – By Links Drive
• London Road – Verdant depot

These vehicles will be in situ from 08:00 to 14:00 unless the weather conditions deteriorate. Our vehicles will not be moving from these points to collect from any other road under any circumstance, as the normal collections are suspended.

Week commencing 11th January only – we will be providing all residents with a refuse collection regardless if it should be your refuse or recycling collection. Please present your refuse wheelie bin for collection. We are doing this as we are aware some residents have missed out on a refuse collection due to the bank holiday changes and the severe weather conditions which we have experienced this week.

 All collections will return to normal week commencing Monday 18th January- obviously this is weather permitting!

For latest information please refer to Rother District Councils website http://www.rother.gov.uk/

This week has seen Rother experiencing adverse weather conditions.  Due to the snow and ice creating dangerous road conditions, refuse and recycling collections were suspended today (Thursday). We will be returning as soon as conditions have improved for our vehicles to gain access safely. If your wheelie bin or recycling boxes aren’t collected on the specified day due to the weather please leave them out at the collection point and the crews will collect them as soon as possible.

Rother District Council also have the latest details re collections: http://www.rother.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=100

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed the festivities!

Please remember there will be a few day changes to your refuse and recycling collections over the festive/ new year period. For details please refer to Rother District Councils website http://www.rother.gov.uk/.

This year garden waste collections have been suspended between Christmas and into the new year to offer residents an extra refuse collection to cope with the additional waste. Please note all collections revert back to normal Monday 11th January.

P.s Remember the local ‘bring sites’ have bottle banks to recycle glass!