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Week ending Friday 12 May 2017
Havering Council spends nearly £15m a year disposing of waste and it's going up by £1m a year which is why it’s so important that everyone plays their part in reducing waste, preventing litter and keeping our borough clean and safe.
Get composting - and save yourself and us money!
Around 40% of black bag rubbish in Havering is food.
If you find you have lots of raw fruit and vegetable waste and can’t use the foods for quick soups or smoothies, then please consider composting it. To mark Compost Awareness week this week Havering Council have a special subsidised compost bin offer for resident.
For just £5.99 including delivery, you can have a 330 litre compost bin and a free kitchen caddy making it easy to collect food scraps from your kitchen and other compostable items from around your home and transfer it to the compost bin.
Get composting and reduce the weight of rubbish we have to collect and by doing so help us keep down our costs and give yourself a free supply of great nutritional compost to use in your garden.
 Due to the Spring Bank Holiday collections during the week commencing Monday 29 May will be one day later than usual. (So if you usually have your bags out on a Monday morning please leave them indoors or safe until Tuesday morning).
On your revised collection day please make sure all bags and other small electrical items and batteries you would like us to pick up and recycle for you are left on the boundary of your property by 7am.
London Tree Week returns on Saturday 27 May and runs until Sunday 4 June and this year it
is has grown bigger than ever before with more than 60 events across London celebrating trees
in streets, parks, and woodlands.
Havering residents are
encouraged to share their photos of their favourite trees on Twitter and
Instagram using #LondonTreeWeek.
London Tree Week is
organised by the Mayor of London in collaboration with a number of partner organisations
including The Woodland Trust and The London Wildlife Trust, and is part of the
Mayor’s work to protect, promote and expand London’s trees and woodlands.
Christina Joachim, events
manager for the Woodland Trust said: “London Tree Week is the perfect opportunity
to celebrate how important trees and woods are, for everyone. Trees make our
world a better place to live – they clean the air, they provide shade, they
offer a place for recreation. There should be more of them on our
streets, and the ones we have need better protection!
Havering Council’s Green and Clean campaign will be coming to Hacton Lane in Hornchurch on Wednesday 31 May 2017.
From 10am until 1pm volunteers will be joining Council staff to tidy up the area, plant some flowering plants and shrubs as well as generally make it a more pleasant place to live.
Community Clean-Ups are a great way in which residents can help tidy up their area and keep Havering a clean and green borough.
This month we are focusing on the area around Hacton Lane Hall in Haydock Close, Hornchurch. The hall is well used by community groups for their regular meetings and by local residents who hire it for family parties and celebrations.
Each month until October the Housing Services Community Engagement Team is coordinating clean-ups on different housing estates across Havering and we hope local residents will join in and help us make their area look good.
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