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A new county-wide campaign, Metal Matters, is being rolled out across Buckinghamshire to encourage households to recycle their food and drink cans, kitchen foil, foil containers and trays, empty aerosols and metal screw tops. With Britain using over 425,000 miles of household foil every year – enou...
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Plastic waste has become a BIG issue for people living all over the world! Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away every year in the UK alone, and 88% of waste is not recycled. But you can help make a difference and encourage change on a much larger scale. After the success o...
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The Repair Revolution is taking over Buckinghamshire, FCC Environment’s second pop-up Repair Café was a triumph! On Saturday 12 th March skilled volunteer repairers gave their time to help fix a variety of items and share their repair know how. Items brought to the pop-up repair café included a lap...
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Dispose of household waste Your household waste must be disposed of correctly. If you’re giving it to someone else, you must make sure that they’re legally allowed to take it. You could be fined if you give your household waste to someone who is not legally allowed to take it. What to do with house...
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Lots of products now have symbols on them to tell us more about what they are made from and how we can dispose of them. This guide will help you understand what items you can recycle and which ones need to go into the bin. On-Pack Recycling labels (or OPRL) have been around a while and are on all s...
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Communities around Buckinghamshire are being invited to pop on their gloves and hi-vis vests, grab a refuse sack and litter picker and get involved with clearing up their local area as part of Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean. Now in its ninth year, the national, annual initiative is ...
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The much-loved reuse shop in High Heavens household recycling centre, run by South Bucks Hospice in partnership with FCC Environment and Buckinghamshire Council, celebrated 10 years of being open last weekend by unveiling a brand new, purpose built retail space on the High Wycombe site which will i...
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Buckinghamshire Council supports individuals and groups who want to keep their local area clean by picking litter. The council supplies litter pickers, bags, gloves and advises on how best to dispose of any litter picked waste. But every March the Council goes the extra mile to support local people...
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Buckinghamshire County Council's Cabinet has today (7 January) agreed a series of changes to the county's household recycling centre service. The recommendations for change were prepared following a recent public consultation and a detailed analysis of how the recycling centre service currently ope...
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Penny Peacock, manager of a South Buck Hospice Reuse Shop spotted the donated instrument she thought may have a significant value, it went on to raise more than £2,000 for the charity. The manager regularly organises items given to the shop in the village next to Aylesbury to decide if they are bet...
https://www.recycleforbuckinghamshire.co.uk/news/a-rare-guitar-has-managed-to-raise-a-four-figure-sum-for-a-charity-shop-in-aston-clinton/