Recycling
As a group we are keen to encourage as much recycling as possible based on the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra. This not only preserves scarce resources it also uses much less energy then creating things from the raw materials. Here is a summary of what can currently be recycled in the area;
- Green Box
Glass bottles & jars. Paper - newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, Yellow Pages, & junk mail. Cans (both drink and food cans + metal jam jar lids). Aluminium Foil. Clothing. Shoes. Car batteries. - Green Wheelie Bins
obtained from Sedgemoor council these hold garden waste and are picked up fortnightly (you can also purchase large paper sacks for green waste.) - At the Recreation Ground
Cardboard. Plastic Bottles (look for these symbols - HDPE 1,PET(E) 2, and PVC 3). The plastic that they cannot currently collect are margarine and yoghurt pots, green plastic bottles and any plastic bottle tops. Tetra Pak cartons can be deposited here; this includes all juice and milk cartons which are mixed card and plastic, please rinse. The plastic tops can be recycled seperately, see below. - At the recycling centre at Cheddar
Wood, Metal, Broken Household appliances and garden waste - At the recycling centre at Highbridge
Old Engine Oil - Plastic Bottle Tops (Jacqui Eastcourt) Plastic milk bottle tops can't be recycled in Wedmore's bottle bank, but you can collect them and when you've got a few bags full, contact p - Jacqui lives locally and collects the tops for recycling by a specialist company, with the money raised going to charity. The tops must not have any plastic or card inserts in them, and they must be washed.
- Printer Cartridges (Re-Use) - Further to information given by others, Cartridge World in Street, (Unit 3, The Bayliss Centre, High Street, Street, Somerset, BA16 0EX, www.cartridgeworld.org) promise to refill "almost any brand of inkjet cartridge". They also "remanufacture almost any brand of toner cartridge".
- Printer Cartridges (Recycling) - The IT Centre in Wedmore offers envelopes to recycle "inkjet cartridges that work in your Hewlett Packard, Lexmark and Dell printer" as well as certain Canon cartridges in support of Tommy's Baby Charity. The envelopes will take a number of cartridges so it is possible (and obviously better) to fill up the envelope before sending it off.
The IT Centre will also continue to provide a box for Epsom cartridges which Penny will recycle in bulk at her local post office in Meare (while it remains open). The Post Office holds a recycling box for all brands of inkjet and toner cartridges. If people have any cartridges other than HP, Lexmark, Dell and Canon which, like Epsom, cannot be recycled in the charity envelopes, they can put these in the Epsom box also and Penny will recycle them at the Post Office.
Obviously if/when the PO closes, we will need to review this process so if anyone finds another location that carries one of these "take all cartridges" boxes, Penny would be grateful if they would let her know. (Of course re-using where possible is going to be a better option - If the recycling banks at the Wedmore recreation ground are full please call Somerset Waste Partnership on 01823 625700 and they will arrange another collection.
We also hold two Freecycle days each year; for information on the next one please go to the Events section. This is where you can bring all those things you don’t need anymore but that someone else may like. It is like a car boot sale but with no money changing hands. All we ask is that anything of yours that isn’t collected is not left at the venue.
We have a site on the Freecycle website which is an online version of our Freecycle days so you can give away your unwanted stuff all through the year. Click here to join Wedmore Freecycle