How to recycle your REAL
Christmas Tree
Wheeled bin Garden
Waste Collection Service customers – cut your tree and place it in your
green bin with the lid closed on your collection day. Please make sure
you remove your decorations.
You can also recycle your
tree at:
Gerpins
Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre in Upminster
Gidea
Park Sports Ground, Main Road, Romford, RM2 6NP on Saturday 2 January,
10am - 2pm.
If it’s a small tree with
roots, try replanting it in your garden or decorating it and potting it as a
feature to your garden.
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Save
time and money when it comes to festive foods:
Get
creative with your leftovers, there are lots of ideas and recipes here, such as turkey and sprout hash (pictured), to
help you celebrate a cracking Christmas.
Reduce
your food waste and freeze your leftovers - freeze uncooked turkey and ham, and
then thaw in the fridge to use in casseroles, curries, pies and sandwiches.
Compost
– you can compost over a third of the everyday things that you throw away
during Christmas. This could include your potato, carrot and parsnip peelings,
or broccoli and Brussel sprouts stalks. Find out what you can compost here.
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Crackdown at recycling centres
From January, Automatic Number
Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras will be in use at the four
Reuse and Recycling Centres (RRC), including Gerpins Lane, Upminster, available for Havering residents to
dispose of unwanted items.
The ANPR cameras will be used to
challenge drivers of vehicles suspected of carrying trade waste as each tonne
of trade waste fraudulently left at an RRC costs Council Tax payers £130 to dispose of.
When visiting an RRC please have
your driving licence or current Council Tax bill available as proof of where you
live.
Further
details on recycling centres.
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Your help needed to catch fly-tippers
Havering Council
is appealing for information after the above rubbish was dumped in
Brookland Close, Romford between Thursday 17 December and Saturday 19
December. Anyone with information can contact CrimeStoppers, in confidence, on 0800 555 111.
Fly-tipping
is a serious criminal offence with a maximum penalty of £50,000 and/or
12 months imprisonment when the case is heard in the Magistrates' Court,
or a five-year prison sentence and unlimited fine if the case goes to
the Crown Court.
Anyone with information about fly-tipping is asked to report it to the Council online.
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Dumping fridges costs van owner £878
A man who dumped three fridges and a chest freezer bedside a road has been fined £876.
Brian Daly, 64, from Dagenham was prosecuted by Havering Council under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, after the driver of a van was caught on CCTV dumping the items on a service road in Hornchurch.
Mr Daly was identified as being the vehicle's registered owner. He denied fly-tipping but admitted owning the van. He claimed that someone else had borrowed it, but refused to provide any names.
He pleaded guilty and was fined £120, with costs of £336, with a further £400 added for removing the fridges. Together with a victim surcharge of £20, the total was £876.
Organise a clean-up in your community
A fantastic way to help improve
your local area is to organise a community clean-up. Havering Council can help
you organise a clean-up by providing posters to promote your event,
clean-up equipment and removal of any rubbish you collect. If you are interested in volunteering for a clean-up, email Kim Smith.
If
you would like to organise your own community clean up, email here.
See how to organise a community clean up here
Reuse and recycle small electrical items
We now collect certain small, household, electrical
items. Just put them in a securely tied carrier bag and leave them next to your
orange sacks on your usual collection day.
See the full list of what we will collect here.
Improving London’s air quality
As part of plans to improve air quality in London, from 1 January 2018, all taxis
licensed for the first time must be zero emission capable, while new diesel
taxis will not be allowed in London.
For private hire vehicles, there are
several milestones which will ensure that all vehicles granted a private hire
licence for the first time after 1 January 2023 will be zero emission capable,
regardless of age:
In advance of the ULEZ requirements,
and to clean up the private hire fleet, all private hire vehicles licensed for
the first time between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2019 must feature a Euro
6 petrol or diesel engine, or a Euro 4 petrol-hybrid engine.
From 1 January 2020 all new private
hire vehicles – defined as those under 18 months old – licensed for the first
time will have to be zero emission capable.
Older private hire vehicles – those
over 18 months old – will need to feature a Euro 6 engine when licensed for the
first time between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022. They will also need to
be zero emission capable from 2023.
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