• Recycle all that colourful aluminium foil from your Easter eggs! Scrunch it up to at least the size of a tennis ball to be sure that it will get picked up in the recycling process and then put it in your recycling bin for collection. If it springs back open when you try to scrunch it, this means it’s laminated and should go in your general rubbish bin. And you can also easily recycle foil trays, aerosols and aluminium drinks cans which often get overlooked.
• Our Household Waste Recycling Centres are open from 0830 to 1800 throughout the Easter holidays and there’s a reuse shop opened at the Bolsover site with bargains to be bagged. Please pre-sort your waste before making a visit to the HWRCs – it helps things to flow more quickly.
• Check with your district or borough council about possible changes to your kerbside collection over the Easter week if you’re unsure.
• If you are having a sort out remember the Repair Cafes can often mend your broken items rather than you throwing them out.

Sight Support Derbyshire is holding a series of information events where you can find out what support is available and try out a range of equipment including talking books and electronic reading aids.

The events are taking place on:

• Wednesday 3 April, 10.30am until 1pm, Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Buxton, SK17 6HX
• Wednesday 24 April, 10.30am until 1pm, Hill Street Baptist Church, Swadlincote, DE11 8HL
• Wednesday 15 May, 10.30am – 3.30pm, Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton, DE55 2EJ
• Tuesday 11 June, 10.30am until 1pm, Erewash CVS, Granville Avenue, Long Eaton, Notts, NG10 4HD
• Monday 24 June, 10.30am until 1pm, St Thomas Centre, Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, S40 3AW
• Monday 8 July, 10.30am until 1pm, St Oswald’s Church Hall, School Lane, Ashbourne, DE6 1AN
• Tuesday 30 July, 10.30am until 1pm, Medway Community Centre, New Street, Bakewell, DE45 1DY.

No registration required. For more information, call the Sight Support Derbyshire team on 01332 292 262.

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The shop will stock good quality items collected at the county’s recycling centres and sell them at low cost to give them a new lease of life.

Items like:

• furniture
• crockery, pots, cutlery, kitchen goods
• books, CDs, records, DVDs – all should be originals and not copies
• ornaments
• pictures, picture frames and pieces of art
• garden furniture, garden tools, garden ornaments
• premium clothing and footwear – donated directly to the shop
• toys and board games.

The shop will be open in tandem with the recycling centre and will be run by contractors H W Martin who operate eight household waste recycling centres for us.

Proceeds from sales at the re-use shop will go towards running costs of the shop and any profits will be shared equally between the county council, H W Martin and charitable causes.

Our share of any profits will be put back into our waste management budget which pays for services like running household waste recycling centres.

If the shop proves popular then we will consider opening further stores at other household waste recycling centres across the county.

Purchases can be made using cash or electronically.

Re-use is even better for the environment than recycling as it means items can be put to good use without having to use energy to re-process them and turn them into something new.