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In this edition:
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Give your food some thought!
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Benefits information
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Scam warning
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Give your food some thought! |
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Flintshire County Council is asking you to look again at the food you buy and give it some food for thought this holiday season.
In the year to March 2022, we recycled almost 4,700 tonnes of food waste in Flintshire. This food waste is taken to an anaerobic digestion facility in Rhuallt where it is turned into biogas and bio-fertiliser. This produces electricity to power our homes and fertilisers for farmers to grow our food. To find out more on the process watch this short video.
Flintshire’s Cabinet Member for Streetscene and the regional transport strategy, Councillor Dave Hughes, said:
“It’s great that we are recycling food waste but we know that there is still a lot of food waste being placed in the black bin. Around one quarter of the waste put in the black bin is food which could be sent for recycling; however, we know most of this food is still in an edible condition!
“Given the environmental impact that growing, manufacturing, transporting and disposing of food can have on the environment, we need take action and there is no better time to start than at Christmas when we see a rise in recycling and waste every year.”
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Free School Meals (eFSM)
Payment in lieu of Free School Meals (eFSM) for the Christmas Holidays will be made in the week commencing 19 December 2022. Payment of £39.00 per eligible child should reach bank accounts by Friday 23 December 2022 at the latest. Payment will be automatic for those parents we hold bank details for.
Housing Benefit
There will be an earlier Christmas payment run for Housing Benefit. The payment should reach accounts by close of play on Friday 23 December 2022. The payment will cover payments up to 1 January 2023.
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Flintshire County Council Trading Standards have been made aware of a new Council Tax scam. Residents have reported receiving a text claiming to be from Flintshire Council Tax saying that there is a problem with their Council Tax direct debit and they need their bank details to resolve it. If you receive such a text do not respond to it, IT IS A SCAM, Flintshire County Council will not contact you in this way about your Council Tax. If you have any concerns about your Council Tax please phone Flintshire County Council on 01352 704848.
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