Household waste and recycling collections will continue as usual over the long Easter weekend, with collections as normal on Good Friday and Easter Monday. The Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) at Lynnbottom and Afton Marsh will also be operating normal hours, but you must book your visit online beforehand. You can book your visit via www.iow.gov.uk/waste. The bulky waste and free re-use collection service will still be available over the Easter period also.
Top tips for a waste free Easter
This Easter think Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Here’s some tips to get you started: Reduce
- How about buying flowers or vegetable seeds instead of an Easter egg?
- If you want to give an egg, look for ones with minimal plastic or why not make your own?
- Send an e-card: save paper by sending an electronic greeting to friends and family, or make your own collage card from scraps of paper.
- Get crafty: make your own Easter decorations such as turning a can into an Easter rabbit.
Reuse
- Food waste: With the average family throwing away more than £700 worth of perfectly edible food each year, advice on food waste reduction and recipes for leftovers can all be found at www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
- Try not to over-estimate the amount of food you’ll need over the Easter break. The Love Food Hate Waste website has great ideas for some delicious Easter leftovers inspiration. But what about the food waste you can’t eat, such as egg shells or the base of a lettuce? These can go in your food waste caddy.
- If you don’t have an indoor/outdoor food caddy, you can order one at www.iow.gov.uk/waste or contact the waste team at (01983) 823777.
Recycle
- Recycle as much you can; choose Easter eggs that come in less packaging, or at least in recyclable packaging. Plastic goes in your green bin/reusable sack and cardboard in your paper/card insert or blue reusable sack.
- If you do opt for a traditional card, ensure it does not have any glitter or bows on it as this means it cannot be recycled. Plastic wrappers (the sort with coloured plastic and foil attached) are unable to be recycled so goes in your black bin/black sack. This is because we are currently unable to separate the foil from the coloured plastic during the recycling process.
Wow so the council are happy to boast that a service we pay for will still be supplied? And then helpful hints to reduce the waste they have to deal with? If I reduce my weekly waste will my council tax go down? Unfortunately as there is no point it all goes in the same bin and I will fill it to the top with anything each week because it’s one of the few things I get for my £230 a month I have to pay them!!!
Council tax is the biggest con in UK History
Nope, that was the Poll Tax in the 80’s
Don’t forget the Window Tax introduced in 1696 and Pitt the Younger’s Hat Tax of 1784.
Poll Tax was much fairer.
Thanks for these great tips Isle of Wight council. This Easter, I will be giving my nephews and nieces packets of seeds (they are looking a bit chubby anyway) and everyone else will get an E-card. After making a crap hat from the stuff in my recycling bin, including empty tuna cans, egg boxes, and beer bottles, we will all be tucking into a delicious meal made of food that I might otherwise have put in the waste caddy. I can’t wait to see everyone’s faces when I serve them up a tasty plate of chicken bones, potato peelings, some dodgy smelling cabbage, and soft tomatoes. What a great weekend we have in store! I have a tip for Isle of Wight council: stop charging me so much council tax for no services other than emptying the bins
“stop charging me so much council tax for no services other than emptying the bins”
no,.. that’s just not true !
they don’t only charge for emptying the bins,… there’s the floating fiasco as well…
and the Robbing B’stards are now charging us 50p to have a P I S S
and they are also charging us £2 if we park our vehicles after 6pm along
Seafronts
And we are led to believe crooked B’stards are behind bars, this lot ain’t
YET