 Act now to renew Green Waste contracts
If you use Havering Council's green bin service for your garden waste, you need to act fast as your contract runs out on Thursday 31 March.
Each bin costs £35 per year and is emptied every two weeks.
Click here and log on to MyHavering to renew your bin today.
If you have not used the service before you can register online here.
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 Save
£4 if you order a
compost bin by Thursday 31 March
You will save £4 if you order a compost bin by Thursday 31 March. The price will increase to £14.99 from Friday 1 April.
Havering Council is offering residents of the
Borough a 220L or 330L compost bin with a free 5 litre Kitchen Caddy for just
£10.99 until the end of March 2016. A great price to get
you composting at home whether your garden is big or small.
London Green Points – Havering members also earn 1,200 green points, worth £3, for ordering a bin and caddy.
Composting
is nature's way of recycling - helping you to turn your garden,
kitchen waste, and other household items into
valuable, organic, nutrient rich compost to be used on your garden. It saves
you money whilst also helping your garden flourish, and the environment too.
Over a third of an average household bin can be composted at home.
Log on here to order
your bin today.
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Free composting workshops
Ever
thought about composting? A third of average household rubbish can be
composted, so you can make excellent food for your plants while recycling and
reducing much of your black sack waste.
Havering’s
Recycling Team is offering free composting workshops on:
Saturday 9 April, 10am – noon, Thames Chase Forest Centre,
Broadfields, Pike Lane, Upminster, RM14 3NS.
Please book your place here.
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Snap a selfie at a Recycling Bring Bank
and
get Green Points
Just take a selfie when you next use a Recycling Bring Bank and post it on our
Facebook page or tweet your photo to @RecycleLBH
using #greenpoints and 1200 points will be added to your account.
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 Real nappies sample packs
Did
you know Havering Council offers a sample starter pack of cloth nappies for
parents in the Borough to try real nappies as an alternative to
disposables?
For
just £5 you can collect a sample pack worth around £30 from our selected
retailer to take home and try.
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Real Nappy Week:
18 -24 April 2016
During Real Nappy Week, the Havering Recycling team will be running a
‘Nappuccino’ at The Queens Theatre,
Billet Lane, Hornchurch, on Tuesday 19 April 10.30am - 1.30pm.
Advisors will be available to help Havering residents on using cloth
nappies as an alternative to disposable ones. There will be a display of
sample nappies, details and application forms for the
Havering Real Nappy Scheme, lots of information and the launch of the new
local cloth nappy library set up by one of the Havering Real Nappies
Champions.
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Reduce your food waste to win an Ice Cream Maker
Havering residents are being challenged to pledge to
reduce their food waste, to be in with a chance of winning an Andrew James Ice
Cream Maker.
Pledges
can be simple ones such as "I will use a spaghetti
measurer to measure my spaghetti portions" or "I will buy loose potatoes
instead of a bag of them so that I only buy what I need".
All you need to do is post your pledge on the Love
Food Hate Waste Havering Facebook page, then 'Like' and
'Share' the page with your Facebook Friends and Family to show your commitment. Terms and conditions apply.
You will be entered in a prize draw to win an
Andrew James Ice Cream Maker, which can help you use up excess or over-ripened
fruits to create yummy ice creams or healthy frozen yoghurts or sorbets. Deadline for entries is Friday 29 April.
Check here
for some great tips and ideas for reducing food waste at home, including recipes
for using leftover food.
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B&Q runs a community reuse scheme
The scheme donates unsellable products and materials for re-use by local schools, other educational institutions and community groups, for the benefit of the local community and the environment. These items are donated on the understanding that they will be re-used or disposed of responsibly if they are not used.
Find out more details here.
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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.
Waste less food,
save money
On
average 44 per cent of black sack rubbish in Havering is food waste. Together we can reduce this figure to help the
environment and save money. If you waste less food it is estimated that
the average family can save up to £60 each month.
If you are interested
in reducing your food waste and saving money then register for a Free Love Food Hate Waste
cookery workshop.
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Recycling plastic bags
Class 5T from Towers Junior School, Hornchurch produced a crotched bag from plastic bags. What do you think?
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 Help keep Havering clean
Reporting
online is an easy way to help keep Havering clean, as your report goes
direct to the people responsible for taking action on the issue you
raise.
You can report the following online:
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