Hello Bookham!

My name is Rachael Abbott and I am currently working on my Queen's Guide award. As part of my community action project I would like to create a Recycling Directory for Bookham. We are already doing a fantastic job at reducing our household waste, but a directory of where all sorts of different items can be recycled or, better still, reused without further processing, would greatly improve our current efforts. Although things such as tins, cardboard, paper, plastic bottles, and glass already go in our green bins, many people are unaware that batteries, light bulbs, and juice cartons can be easily recycled. There are charities that collect old postage stamps and milk bottle tops as well as a myriad of other items that we would usually send to a landfill to help their fundraising. To have all this information in one place would make helping our community and our planet even easier.

To make this directory as complete as possible I need your help. Have you found somewhere or someone who can reuse a certain thing? Do you have ideas of items that you think someone else could use or could be recycled but do not know what to do with them? I would greatly appreciate the people of Bookham to contact me with any such information or ideas for me to follow up and include.

We will be publishing an update in Look Local early next year which will, with your help, include the Recycling Directory to date.

Together we can really make a difference.

Thank you for your assistance.

Rachael Abbott

Contact me via the Green Mole Forum here