A new recycling service has been introduced for paper containers with metal ends, such as Pringles tubes, packaging used for hot chocolate, nuts and other products.
These containers can be recycled alongside food and drink cartons at specialist banks at the Council's Newbury and Padworth Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) and Mini Recycling Centres (MRCs):
- Newbury - Waitrose, Sainsbury's
- Hungerford - Station Car Park
- Thatcham - Kingsland Centre
- Hermitage - Hillier Garden Centre
- Burghfield - Willink Leisure Centre
The introduction of the new service follows a number of other improvements made together with Veolia UK in the past year. These include the introduction of plastic pots, tubs and trays from selected recycling centres along with the expansion of the small waste electronic equipment and carton recycling banks at our MRCs.
We know that many of you love your local library and greatly appreciated the services we were able to provide last year, including an extension of our online provision during lockdown. Thank you for all the kind words you sent us during the year and in response to our recent Annual Report.
On a regular basis we review the services we offer and think about what changes we might need to make to improve them. We’re currently undertaking a review of the whole library service and we would like to hear how you think we could change to make the service better. We are also looking to the future and thinking about how we might need to develop the library service over the coming years.
You can take part in different ways. Please complete our online survey (which should take about 5-10 minutes). Alternatively you can email your comments to library@westberks.gov.uk or leave a note on our social media with the hashtag #LoveWestBerksLibraries. As always, we also welcome your comments when you visit us at the Library.
We’ll be collecting your feedback and suggestions until 15 November and this will inform a review of the West Berkshire Libraries Service. Once completed, the final report will be considered by elected Council Members at an Executive meeting in spring 2022 and will be published on the West Berkshire Council website.
Please have your say – we’d love to know your views!
Nominations are open for our Community Champion Awards.
The Community Champion Awards are an opportunity to say thank you to people who have done something special for their local community and will honour those individuals and community groups who have gone above and beyond to support residents throughout West Berkshire this year.
Nominations will be open from Tuesday 28 September 2021 for 5 weeks. All of the awards will be judged by an independent panel and the winners will be presented with their award at an awards ceremony to be held in January 2022.
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