Page content section :
Waste and recycling
Useful external website links :
Note
: From 1st April 2008 the recycling and refuse service for Adur residents
will be run by Adur & Worthing Council Services (AWCS).
This will provide a cleaner and safer service for both residents and operatives.
For more information about AWS see : AWS
website (www.aws.gov.uk)
- Recycle
for West Sussex (www.recycleforwestsussex.org)
- Better Tomorrows (www.bettertomorrows.org.uk)
- Buy
Recycled Campaign (www.recycledproducts.org.uk)
- Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (www.ciwm.co.uk)
- Cleaning
Expert - cleaning tips and advice (www.cleaningexpert.co.uk)
- Department for
Environment Food and Rural Affairs (www.defra.gov.uk)
- Environment Agency (www.environment-agency.gov.uk)
- Envirowise
: Environmental advice for businesses (www.envirowise.gov.uk)
- Green
Cycle Adur
(formerly known as Freecycle Lancing but now part
of the UK Freegle Network) (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenCycleAdur/)
- Charity shops : Many charity shops will recycle
or sell on clothing, furniture, electrical goods, stamps, foreign currency,
toner cartridges and mobile phones. By donating or recycling your unwanted
goods you can help raise vital funds for their work with disadvantaged or
older people. Links to some of the organisations' websites are listed alphabetically
below :
- Age UK (previously Age Concern and Help The Aged) (www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/our-shops/)
- Barnardos (www.barnardos.org.uk/donate/donating_goods.htm)
- British Heart Foundation (www.bhf.org.uk/shop_with_bhf/our_shops/donating_goods.aspx)
- British Red Cross (www.redcross.org.uk/Get-involved/Our-shops/Donate-to-our-charity-shops)
- Cancer Research UK (www.cancerresearchuk.org/donate/other_ways_donate/donatinggoods/)
- Mind (www.mind.org.uk/help/mind_in_your_areas/shops/donations)
- Oxfam website (https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/shops)
- Scope (www.scope.org.uk/shops)
- Hospices :
- Martletts Hospice, Hove, East Sussex (www.themartlets.org.uk/get_involved/retail/)
- St Barnabas Hospice, Worthing, West Sussex (www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.uk/default.asp?id=44&ver=1)
- Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice, Poling, West Sussex (www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk/default.asp?id=42&ver=1)
- See also :
- Association of Charity
Shops (www.charityshops.org.uk)
- Association of Charity
Shops (www.charityshops.org.uk)
- Nappies :
- WSCC : Real Nappy Initiative (www.bettertomorrows.org.uk/page/Real-Nappy-Initiative/11/)
- WSCC : Waste prevention - for better tomorrows (www.bettertomorrows.org.uk)
- Go Real - Real Nappy Campaign (www.goreal.org.uk)
- Women's
Environmental Network (www.wen.org.uk)
- Recycle for West Sussex (www.recycleforwestsussex.org)
- Recycle Now (www.recyclenow.com)
- Recycling expert (www.recyclingexpert.co.uk)
- Recycling Guide (www.recycling-guide.org.uk)
- Recycling information (www.recycle-more.co.uk)
- Recycling (local authority) (www.larac.org.uk)
- Recycling (small businesses) (www.reducetheuse.co.uk)
- Reuze (www.reuze.co.uk)
- Slim Your
Bin (www.slimyourbin.org.uk)
- Think Cans (www.thinkcans.net - website temporarily unavailable, but
you could try cutting and pasting the website address into your web browser)
- WRAP (Waste and Resource Action Programme) (www.wrap.org.uk)
- Waste reduction, reuse and recycling (www.wastewatch.org.uk/Homepage)
- WSCC : Recycle for West Sussex (www.recycleforwestsussex.org)
- WSCC : Waste prevention - for better tomorrows (www.bettertomorrows.org.uk)
- WSCC
: A to Z of recyclable materials (www.recycleforwestsussex.org/what_you_can_recycle)
See also : Being green, caring for your environment (on our website) for more useful links
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