1. We can all recycle (green bin collections):

• glass,
• paper and card,
• cans (steel and aluminium),
• plastic bottles

We have the option of paying extra for

• a brown top bin for garden waste,
• some areas have small green caddies for food waste.

2. At MV Community Recycling points there are facilities for:

• aluminium foil,
• tetrapaks,
• and sometimes clothes and shoes

3. At St Nicolas, Great Bookham they collect and redistribute:

• plastic mailing wrappers (remove any paper labels, please)
• plastic milk bottle tops (from supermarket milk),
• postage stamps,
• spectacles,
• binoculars,
• old mobile phones,
• used printer cartridges.

4. Other ideas:

Many charities will take your old mobile phones and printer cartridges - find out if your favourite cause collects them.

Several local opticians reuse your old spectacles - just ask them.

Many supermarkets recycle plastic bags.

Remember Charity shops, and jumble sales.

Think about the Freecycle network (Mole Valley Freecycle):  for disposing of unwanted items to other people who could use them.

Use rechargeable batteries.

Workaid collects old tools - see www.workaid.org for what they want (there is a local collection point in Leatherhead, contact us for more details).

Compost more - newspaper and "rough" card can be torn up and composted in the garden heap.

Sign up to the Mail Preference Scheme to stop getting junk mail in the first place:
Mailing Preference Service,
DMA House,
70 Margaret Street,
London,
W1W 8SS

0845 703 4599

Don't forget that while recycling is useful, the most important actions are to Reduce what you use/buy, Reuse it whenever possible ... and only then Recycle.

Margaret Hibbert