It’s Recycle Week this week and High Peak Borough Council is encouraging everyone to take a look at what they’re throwing away and check if anything can be recycled.
The council’s advice is:
• Recycle shampoo and shower gel bottles, toilet roll middles, tissue boxes and bathroom aerosols in your brown bins
• Nappies, plastic bags and film, black plastic items and containers with food or drink still in them should never go in brown bins
• Put your food waste in the green bin either loose or in a compostable bag with the standard of EN13432 code and the seed logo.
Cllr Jean Todd, executive councillor for climate change and the environment, said: “Our recycling rate in High Peak is 48 per cent and it’s great that so many of us are recycling our waste – but we can do even better!”
Fairtrade supporters are celebrating as Glossopdale reaches another milestone in the campaign for fairer trade, respect for farmers and producers, and care for the environment amid the climate crisis.
Campaigners fighting to keep Glossop Household Waste Recycling Centre open are urging residents to have their say before a Derbyshire County Council public consultation closes at midnight on Thursday 23rd July.
High Peak is set to undergo the biggest change to local government in more than 50 years, after the Government confirmed plans to abolish the area's existing councils and replace them with two new unitary authorities.