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Waste and recycling
Green waste
- Garden waste collection service (kerbside green waste collections scheme)
- Compost bins and home composting (including food waste bins or food waste digesters)
- Christmas tree recycling and safe disposal
- WSCC
website : Waste Prevention - for better tomorrows (www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/category.jsp?categoryID=955134&g11n.enc=UTF-8)
Garden waste collection service (kerbside green waste collections scheme)
Note
: From 14th April 2008 the garden waste service will be run by Adur & Worthing
Council Services (AWCS).
This service is available to all Adur residents and collections are made on the same day as your refuse. All garden waste is taken to a licensed site to process into composting.
Only use the wheelie bins or printed sacks (sacks are available for 50p from one of the approved outlets listed below).
- For more information about the new wheeled bin service see : AWS website (www.aws.gov.uk/Services/GardenWaste)
Please refer to the list below to see what can and cannot go in the wheelie bins or sacks.
What you can put in your garden waste :
- Grass cuttings and weeds
- Dead cut flowers and plants
- Fallen leaves
- Hedge clippings
What you MUST NOT put in your garden waste :
Adur District Council reserves the right to refuse collection should your garden waste be contaminated with any of these items :
- Uncooked vegetable and fruit peelings - these should go in your compost bin in your garden
- Normal household waste
- Meat, fish, cheese dairy products or any food prepared with these or cooked leftovers and plate scrapings - raw or cooked - these can go in your food waste bin in your garden
- Dog and cat faeces
- Soil and rubble
- Japanese Knotweed
Alternatively the civic amenity site at Brighton Road, Shoreham, accepts garden waste.
Adur Green Waste sacks retail outlets :
Please refer to the list below to see what can and cannot go in the sacks.
Fill the special sacks with garden waste only.
- Lancing
:
- B&C Attwater, Post Office, 8 Seadown Parade, Bowness Avenue
- Broadway Stores & Post Office, 393 Brighton Road
- Gardner & Scardifield Hardware Shop, Penhill Road
- Gardner & Scardifield Garden Centre, 1-3 South Street
- Fircroft News, 92 Manor Road
- Sussex Drug Stores, 6 Queen’s Parade, North Road
- Adur DC Housing Office, 101 North Road
- Shoreham-by-Sea
:
- Southlands Post Office, 272 Upper Shoreham Road
- Mansell Road Post Office, 61 Mansell Road
- Craft News, 30 Kingston Broadway
- Adur DC Civic Centre, Cash Office, Ham Road
- Shoreham Beach
:
- Beach Green Stores, 134 Beach Road
- Southwick
:
- Sussex Drug Stores, 20 Southwick Square
- Adur DC Housing Office, 21 Southwick Street
Garden waste collection days
Garden waste
sacks or wheelie bins should be put out alongside your normal household waste
and will be collected on the same day (by the same vehicle), collections
will occur on your refuse day - there is no need to phone for collections.
If you have garden waste for collection and DO NOT have a garden waste wheelie
bin, please ensure your garden waste sack is left at the front edge of your
property by 6:30am on the day your normal refuse collection takes place.
We are now providing a drive-past service which picks up any garden waste
sacks left outside the property. If your garden waste sack is at the front
edge of your property by 6:30am on the day your normal refuse collection
and we fail to collect it on that day, you should ring our normal missed
bins reporting line on (01903) 851729
and select option 2.
Shoreham town centre collections :
If you live in one of the following
roads in Shoreham town centre then your green garden waste will be collected
on a Monday (unless a Monday is a bank holiday in which case it will be Tuesday
for that week only) :
- Brighton Road (nos. 368-410)
- Brunswick Road
- Church Street
- East Street
- Ham Road
- High Street
- John Street
- Middle Street
- New Road
- North Street
- Pond Road
- Queens Place
- Ship Street
- St Marys Road
- Surry Road
- Tarmount Lane
- West Street (1-73, and 2-56)
- Western Road
Compost bins and home composting
Composting is nature's way of recycling and can reduce your household refuse by up to 30%.
You have several options for composting :
- Composting at home in your garden compost bin
- Composting your garden waste with the wheelie bin kerbside green waste collection scheme or at household waste recycling sites
- Food waste bins / Food waste digesters
Composting at home in your garden compost bin
You
can use a compost bin (or composter) in your garden for your garden waste
(eg, grass cuttings, weeds, dead cut flowers and plants, fallen leaves, hedge
clippings, etc) and uncooked fruit or vegetables and their peelings from
your kitchen.
Buying a compost bin :
Adur works in partnership with West Sussex County Council to offer you quality
compost bins at subsidised prices. Simply call Adur Council on (01273) 263133
to request further details or ring the supplier direct on 0845 077 0757
(and quote reference HCA2 or WREN), or see the Recycle
Now website (compost) (www.recyclenow.com/compost).
Surveys indicate that one in three households in Adur have a composting unit.
Alternatively garden centres sell a range of composters for use in your garden.
How to compost :
For more information about home composting see the Recycle
for West Sussex website (www.recycleforwestsussex.org/composting) or Recycle
Now website (home composting) (http://www.recyclenow.com/home_composting/) (which
also has an animation to show what actually goes on during the decomposition
process inside the bin) or the Recycle
Now website (compost) (www.recyclenow.com/compost).
See also : WSCC website : Advice on waste prevention (www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.Article:{id=2458528}])
Please note :
- You cannot put food waste in a compost bin, for what you can do with that please see Food waste bins / Food waste digesters.
- That you should not compost Japanese
Knotweed.
Composting your garden waste with the wheelie bin kerbside green waste collection scheme or at household waste recycling sites
To
dispose of your your garden waste (eg, grass cuttings, weeds, dead cut flowers
and plants, fallen leaves, hedge clippings, etc) you can use the wheelie
bin kerbside green waste collection scheme (see above for details of this
scheme) (www.aws.gov.uk/Services/GardenWaste/),
or take your household garden waste along to the household
waste recycling sites in Brighton Road, Shoreham-by-Sea.
From these it is taken to a composting facility where it recycled into 'Reclaim organic soil conditioner'. This is then bagged and made available for sale in 40 litre bags at the household waste recycling sites across West Sussex - except for the East Grinstead and Worthing sites (see WSCC website for details of the household waste recycling site locations : www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ArticleSection:{id=1685596}]).
'Reclaim organic soil conditioner' is ideal for potting, planting, flower bed and border preparation and maintenance, and lawn construction. It improves soil drainage, workability & structure, increases water holding capacity of soils (minimising watering requirements), assists root development and provides slower nutrient release - so the benefits last longer. It is a 100% recycled product produced in West Sussex, is peat free and contains no artificial chemicals.
For more information about 'Reclaim organic soil conditioner' see the Recycle for West Sussex website (www.recycleforwestsussex.org/composting/reclaim_soil_conditioner).
Please note :
- You must not include uncooked vegetable and fruit peelings or other food products in with the items you put in wheelie bin kerbside green waste collections scheme or take for composting at household waste recycling sites, but they can go in your garden compost bin.
- You cannot put food waste in a green waste wheelie bin, for what you can do with that please see Food waste bins / Food waste digesters.
- That you should not compost Japanese
Knotweed.
Food waste bins / Food waste digesters
Cooked and uncooked food waste including meat, fish, bones and dairy products (and cooked fruit or vegetables) cannot be put into compost bins or your green waste wheelie bin.
However you can get food waste bins or food waste digesters that you can put in your garden that will take all food waste including meat, bones and dairy products.
For more details on the two types of food waste bins that are available, how they work and how to install one of them please see the WSCC website : Advice on waste prevention (www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.Article:{id=2458528}]).
Regular uncooked fruit or vegetables and their peelings (but not other food waste) can go in your garden compost bin.
See also : Green Cone website (www.greencone.com)
Christmas tree recycling and safe disposal
In
January of each year Adur and Worthing Council Services provides facilities
for recycling real Christmas trees.
Your unwanted real Christmas trees should be put out for recycling from the 12th January 2009 (date will change each year) on your normal refuse collection days - the garden waste is collected weekly and resumes on this date so your real Christmas trees will be collected if put out. If you are not sure when your collection day is then see collection days for domestic refuse and recycling.
If your real Christmas tree still has its roots then plant it out in your garden.
Please remember to remove all the decorations, baubles and tinsel and also the twinkly lights from your Christmas tree before putting it out for collection!
If you have an artificial tree then please package it away carefully and save it for re-use next Christmas along with all you decorations, tinsel and lights.
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