RECYCLING

 

There was strong support in the parish plan for improved recycling in Leigh on Mendip.  We started with the clothes/shoe bank through Air Ambulance and this has been well used.

 

Working with the Leigh on Mendip First school we have now set up the facilities for you (and your friends) to recycle old mobile phones (working or not) and printer cartridges.  Most makes of inkjet cartridge (e.g. HP, Lexmark, Cannon, Samsung, Dell, Xerox and a few others) can be recycled but not Epson (as these use inktanks and not inkjets).

 

By collecting mobile phones and cartridges we will be in a win-win situation as both CAP and the First school will get money back from the recycling and we will reduce waste to landfill.

 

Please help by collecting yourselves (and ask your friends/colleagues from outside the village to help as well).  You can take/deposit any collected items as below:

 

Primary school children through the First School

David Pattison – 5 Church Walk (lower village)

Vicky Higgins – Foxhollow (middle village)

Alf Smith – Ivy Lodge (upper village)

 

 

RECYCLING FOR CARDBOARD AND PLASTIC BOTTLES

The licences needed to run a recycling service every fortnight from the Recreation Field for the community have been obtained.  Recycling is now established as a pilot project and is run by volunteers - its success depends on your co-operation and at least one volunteer offering to help at each collection.  We started on 8 March at 10.30am and is repeated every fortnight (see What’s On).  We can only take a set amount of cardboard – this needs to be squashed (to reduce the volume) and must not include fruit juice containers such as Tetrapak.  We can take plastic bottles only, not yogurt pots or other plastic containers -  there is a number on the bottle and we can take any that have the number 1-3 (usually in a triangle).  Please also squash the bottles.  We will have leaflets explaining more about plastic bottles on the collection day. 

Please note that we need to stop collecting material at 11.15am – so do not leave any material after that time on the collection day.

 

We use promotional literature provided by SWAP (the Somerset Waste Action Programme team) based at the Carymoor Environmental Centre, Castle Cary, to support this project and encourage recycling generally .  SWAP is supported by Somerset County Council and Mendip District Council.

 

Click here for information regarding the Household Refuse & Recycling Collections