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Sunday, 26 February 2006 |
Fantastic use of the paper/cardboard bank over the year-end holiday, with great help from The Moray Council Environmental Services who emptied it for us three times in the week between Christmas and New Year. It was hard to keep up with your enthusiasm!
However, there was a fair amount of polystyrene, perspex and plastic included and tempting though it is to get rid of all your packaging, we’d be very grateful if you could separate these out and put them in the household wheelie bin.
On to the clothing bank. The MS Society and the Council have asked us to remind you that this is not just for wearable clothing (which we would encourage you to earmark for our own Maggie Fair Jumble Sale anyway). Clothes and fabrics are washed and recycled at a benefit to the Charity, so any clothes, sheets, tablecloths, curtains etc. which are worn, torn – even stained (but not foul, of course), can be thrown in and put to good use – even holey socks and worn-out shoes. By the way, sorry if you find the hatch a bit awkward (things sometimes need to be pushed down) but the bins are now built that way as in the past people in some urban areas have climbed in to go to sleep!
We are aware the temporary signage has fallen victim to the vagaries of the weather and we have plans to replace it with more permanent signage which we will hope will be made of wood and be an attractive addition to the site. We are very aware of concerns to limit the visual impact of the site on the amenity value of the area as far as possible, albeit within what are very obvious constraints.
The volunteer scheme aimed at ensuring that people living in Garmouth & Kingston who are unable to use the recycling facility at Garmouth (e.g. because they do not use a car or have mobility issues) was launched in January with every household being leafleted and coverage by the Press & Journal which we are very grateful for. We are really encouraged to report that there was a very good response to the request for volunteers from both Garmouth and Kingston and we have more volunteers than we need for the small number of people who currently are wishing to make use of the service. Many thanks to all those who volunteered and who have agreed to stay on a contact list should their services be required in the future. We would like to emphasise that if anyone would still like to request the service we have plenty of people willing to help, so please just get in touch.
If the tips of bulbs are encouraging you to think of spring and gardening and you have not got a composter yet you may want to get in touch with The Moray Council Environmental Services Department and take advantage of their discounted offer of £5.00 for a garden composter. This price includes an additional reduction for people living in communities that do not benefit from kerbside collections on the Council’s usual £10 advertised price. If gardening is not for you but you would like to further reduce what is going into your wheelie bin and ultimately Moray’s landfill site, there is also the Green Cone Food Digester for kitchen waste which produces a liquid feed that enters the soil under the digester. As previously highlighted you can find out more details on this and all aspects of reducing, reusing and recycling your waste in Moray in the Waste Aware Guide which every household should have or contact the Council on 01343-557045.
As always, the G&K Recycling group welcomes any comments or views on the new recycling facilities or anything else related. You can get in touch by contacting John Fettes Chairperson 870335 or Chris Mackie Secretary on 870074.
Donna Breen & Chris Mackie
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 February 2006 )
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