Have a green Christmas

City centre festive recycling roadshow

(Date of issue: Tuesday, 9 December 2008)

Carlisle City Council is staging a special festive recycling roadshow this Friday (12 December) to encourage local residents to have a ‘green’ Christmas.

The event will be held in the city centre pedestrianised shopping area between 11am and 2pm.

A professional chef will be on hand to show how to make best use of festive food leftovers. James Hill, from the Bijou restaurant will be cooking up some treats at 11.30am and 1pm, as part of the national ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ campaign organised by WRAP (Waste Resources Action Programme). James will be using a mobile kitchen unit provided by Made in Cumbria.

A competition will also be running at the event, with a top prize of £100 Sharrow Bay restaurant vouchers. Visitors to the event will asked to give their own Love Food Hate Waste tip and will then be entered into the competition. They will also get an Eat Well, Waste Less recipe book to take away with them.

Advice on how to recycle in Carlisle over the festive period will also be available:

How to have a green Christmas:

• If you have a Greenbox, you can recycle the following items from your kerbside or at a local recycling point: wrapping paper; Christmas cards; clean and empty glass bottles & jars and drinks & food cans. Please do not put anything in plastic carrier bags.
• You can recycle your real Christmas trees using your Garden Waste bin (place it beside the bin, on the day of your collection, if it is too big to go inside). In the New Year, to help speed up your garden waste collections, please do not place your garden waste bin out for collection unless it is at least half full.
• If you have Greenbags you can recycle the following items from the kerbside or from recycling points: cardboard food and packaging boxes (please place beside your cardboard bag if it will not fit in); hard plastic packaging; plastic bottles, plastic biscuit trays & other plastic trays/food tubs. Please put plastics in one bag and cardboard in the other.

Festive Refuse and Recycling Collections

There will be some changes to the days you need to put out your refuse (wheeled bins and purple sacks) and kerbside recycling over Christmas and New Year:

Collections return to normal from Monday, 5 January 2009 onwards. Please refer to your recycling calendar and refuse calendar (for those who have refuse wheeled bins) for collection dates.

Remember to recycle your real Christmas trees using your Garden Waste bin, you can place it beside the bin, on the day of your collection, if it is too big to go inside.

For further information on recycling in Carlisle visit www.carlisle.gov.uk or telephone 01228 817200.