Last Updated:
05 Jun 2013
Welcome to the Recycling and Waste pages. Here you can find out when your bin is collected, whether materials can be recycled through your kerbside collections or elsewhere locally. You can also find information on the new recycling scheme due to be introduced in July and find out what happens to the recycled materials. You will also find the latest Recycling and Waste news and lots more besides.
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CROWN (Composting and Recycling our Waste Now) is a segregated waste collection service that allows residents to compost and recycle a wide range of materials.
Use the links below to find out about the different CROWN recycling and waste collections schemes we have in Wealden:
Here you can find more information on the new waste and recycling services due to be launched in July 2013, along with other information on the Joint Waste Contract with Kier.
Here you can find information relating to other household waste services, including:
The Government has laid out a target of making the UK a Zero Waste Nation, and encourages us to apply the "Three Rs": Reduce, Re-Use and Recycle.
All the materials, except green waste and cardboard, are taken to Wealden District Council's Material Reclamation Facility where they are bulked up for onward transport to Ideal in Kent. The materials are then sorted, baled and sold on to mainly UK reprocessors. The following headings will give more information:
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