Have a green Christmas
City centre festive recycling roadshow
(Date of issue: Monday, 28 November 2011)
Some tips on how to have a ‘green’ Christmas will be on offer
this Friday (2 December).
A festive Recycling Roadshow will be held in Carlisle’s city
centre between 10am and 2pm. Residents and visitors will be
encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle this Christmas.
A ‘green grotto’ will also be set up as part of Carlisle City
Council and Resource Cumbria recycling roadshow and will be
decorated with recycled materials. There will also be some handy
hints on how to make your own eco-friendly decorations and
demonstrations on wrapping presents using eco-friendly
wrappings.
Cllr Ray Bloxham, Portfolio holder for Environment and Housing,
said:
“Every year, around three million tonnes of waste is dumped in
the UK during the Christmas period – enough to fill 120million
wheelie bins. We wish all our residents a Merry green Christmas and
hope that after all the cards and presents have been opened, the
Christmas meal and drinks have ended, residents remember to recycle
their festive waste.”
The green roadshow has been organised in conjunction with
Resource Cumbria. Advice on how to recycle in Carlisle over the
festive period will also be available at the roadshow:
How to have a green Christmas:
- If you have a Greenbox, you can recycle the following items at
the kerbside or at a local recycling point: wrapping paper;
Christmas cards; clean and empty glass bottles & jars and clean
and empty drinks & food cans and empty aerosol cans.
- 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 as we cannot recycle mixed bags.
Festive Refuse and Recycling Collections
There will be NO changes to your collection dates over the
Christmas and New Year periods. Collection days will be as
usual.
For further information on recycling in Carlisle, visit www.carlisle.gov.uk/refuseandrecycling
or telephone 01228 817200.