Important Notice

Warsop Household Waste Recycling Centre is closed until further notice due to a fire on a neighbouring site. The County Council apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.

Are you bin smart? Are you bin smart?

The County Council, the District/Borough Councils and Veolia Environmental Services are working together to make sure you know what items to put into your household recycling bin.

Nottinghamshire has already acheived a recycling rate of nearly 40%, with further information and guidance we hope that residents will be able to continue the good work and recycle even more.

Recycle for Nottinghamshire can provide further information on recycling at home, in the garden, at school and at work website: www.recyclefornottinghamshire.org.uk

Your waste - who does what?

Your district council is responsible for collecting your household waste from dustbins and wheelie bins. If you live in the city boundary, Nottingham City Council has this responsibility website: www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1385.

 

Person dressed as a waste bin with the message get composting cut your rubbish by a third   Household Waste Recyc ling Centres – How to find your nearest recycling centre, what you can get rid of and details of opening times.

A-Z of how to recycle more and create less waste – A guide on how you can recycle more of your household items.

District council recycling schemes – Contact information for your local council, which is responsible for emptying wheelie bins and providing recycling banks (for things like bottles and newspapers) in your area.

We currently run a number of waste minimisation schemes in Nottinghamshire to encourage different groups of people to reduce the amount of waste they produce and to recycle more.These projects include promoting real nappies and the Schools Waste Action Club.

What about rubbish that isn't collected?

There are 17 household waste recycling centres across Nottinghamshire. They accept your household waste, which isn't picked up by your district council's collection crews.

How much domestic waste is produced in Nottinghamshire?

The residents of Nottinghamshire generate around 430,000 tonnes of domestic waste each year. The district and borough councils collect 310,000 tonnes from households and members of the public deliver an additional 120,000 tonnes to the 17 household waste recycling centres (rubbish tips) .

Of this, 220,000 tonnes is disposed of in landfill sites and 60,000 tonnes is incinerated, with the energy used to heat Nottingham city centre buildings and provide electricity for the National Grid. A further 100,000 tonnes is recycled and 60,000 tonnes is composted.

New Household Waste Recycling Centre planned for Newark

Newark residents could soon be getting a state of the art recycling centre in a bid to encourage more recycling with better facilities.

Nottinghamshire County Council is submitting a planning application for a new high quality split level Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) and waste transfer station on a site at Telford Drive in Newark.

The new HWRC will replace the existing small site at Newark Road, Hawton which is inconveniently located, and in due course the facility in Fiskerton, which is scheduled to close by 2012. An additional application has been made to extend the life of the Hawton Road site until the Telford Drive facility is commissioned - this is of course subject to a successful outcome on the planning application.

Councillor Chris Baron, Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability said: "We want to encourage Newark residents to recycle more and help meet the county's ambitious target of recycling and composting 52% of residual waste by 2020.

"The new state of the art facility is part of our commitment to not only recycle more but also to improve facilities for local people. We will of course keep people updated as the proposals go through the planning process."

The planned new HWRC is located within the well established Brunel Drive industrial area, and is perfectly sited to serve the town of Newark and the wider Newark and Sherwood area, being close to the A1, A46 and A17. The facility will enable a much wider range of materials to be separated for recycling and will incorporate a split level layout, eliminating the need for ramps to access recycling containers. It will also allow for more vehicles to be on site at any one time.

The transfer station will be used for kerbside collections of materials made by Newark and Sherwood District Council. The recyclable waste is then transferred to the newly opened £14m Materials Recovery Facility in Mansfield where it is sorted before going on to be made into new products.

If the planning application is approved then the timings for the proposed new site would be to start construction work at the end of Summer 2009 with an opening planned for Spring 2010.

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