Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Bulletin | 5 March 2021
Our regular email of tips to help you waste less and recycle more.
Todays tips:
- Ever need to recycle unopened glass, plastic or metal food packaging? Remember to open and empty the contents before recycling. As with all food packaging, please wash and squash before popping in your recycling bin!
- Have you tried our Report It app? It's the quickest way to report environmental issues when you're out and about such as littering, fly-tipping, a public bin that needs to be emptied, graffiti and much more. Download at lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk/Report-It
- Considering home composting for your food and garden waste? Eastbourne residents can get a discounted price on compost bins, food waste digesters or water butts via:
East Sussex County Council - composting at home
Check your next bin collection day
The World Wildlife Fund has shared this infographic showing how long certain plastics take to decompose. This illustrates just how important it is to reduce the amount of plastic packaging we buy and to recycle as much as possible.
For example, recycling one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60W light bulb for six hours while it takes 450 years to decompose.
Did you know in East Sussex, food makes up more than a third of the waste in our bins? If we all stopped wasting bread at home in the UK for a year, it could do the same for greenhouse gas emissions as planting 5.3 million trees?
When we throw away food that could have been eaten we are not just wasting food but the valuable resources that went into making it including water, land and greenhouse gases.
Make quick, simple changes this Food Action Week (1 to 7 March) to help make a big difference: Reduce your food waste and fight climate change
The video below explains what the week is all about:
And finally...
The first of four recycling bins for old or discarded fishing line and fishing net have been installed on Eastbourne Seafront!
The materials collected will be recorded and sent to the UK based recycling company ReWorked to be processed into a plastic board that has many uses.
Our heartfelt thanks to Plastic Free Eastbourne, Fish 2 Water, Eastbourne Voluntary Lifeguards Youth Team and H.L Motors for their involvement and support of this brilliant new initiative!
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