Waste and recycling news - April 2022

Caerphilly County Borough Council sent this bulletin at 14-04-2022 01:00 PM BST

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Mash for Cash winner

The first winner of the Mash for Cash campaign has been announced.


The borough’s Mash for Cash campaign, which launched on the 7th March and will run throughout 2022, will see houses monitored with one food recycling participant chosen at random each month, with each winner receiving £500.

Mrs Susan Jones & Mr Robin Hibbert who reside in Mill View, Caerphilly are the first winners of the cash prize initiative. Mrs Jones said: “We can’t believe we’ve won. We have recycled our food waste for many years so to be acknowledged in this way is amazing. To anyone who doesn’t recycle their food waste, now is definitely the time to start. This money will be a big help at the moment.”

 

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Easter bin collection

Bin collection

There are no changes to waste and recycling collections over Easter, so please put your bins out as usual on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

Household Waste and Recycling Centres will open as usual over the Easter weekend.

To check your collection day, visit https://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/Services/Household-waste-and-recycling/Bin-collection-days?lang=en-gb 

Household Waste and Recycling Centres Summer opening hours

Recycling centres

Household Waste and Recycling Centres Summer opening hours, 9am to 5.30pm, are now in place until 1st October.**

  • Aberbargoed closed every Monday and Thursday
  • Full Moon (Crosskeys) closed every Sunday
  • Penallta closed every Wednesday and Sunday
  • Penmaen closed every Tuesday and Friday
  • Rhymmey closed every Tuesday and Friday
  • Trehir (Llanbradach) closed every Thursday
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Easter recycling 

Easter recycling

Did you know the UK’s Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that the UK discard around 3,000 tonnes of packaging every Easter?

This would take 400 large lorries to transport to landfill or (hopefully) recycling centres and if this 3,000 tonnes of waste were recycled, it would save 1,170,000kWh of energy.

That's enough to boil 182,813 (hens) eggs!

Don't forget, most Easter egg packaging can be recycled.
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