Local Authorities supporting the use of virtual skips

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	LONDON / DIY Planet Repairs The DIY Planet Repair Directory carries a number of useful links to recycle / reuse websites including Recycle For London, FreeCycle, Waste Watch and vSkips. DIY Planet Repairs is produced and supported by The Mayor of London.
	Bassetlaw District Council Bassetlaw District Council currently run a alternate weekly collection of dry recycling and residual waste. The Blue Wheeled Bin is for dry recycling and the following material is acceptable; plastic bottles, yoghurt pots, ice cream tubs, margarine tubs, newspaper, magazines, junk mail, card, cardboard and food and drinks cans and all this is put co-mingled in the blue bin. The green bin is for your residual waste. We also have in the region of 50 bring sites that will take glass bottles. The larger bring sites also have recycling banks for clothes and textiles. We support a subsidised Home Composter Scheme run by WRAP (Waste Recycling Action Programme) where householders can purchase home composters for between £8 and £10 delivered. The scheme is only open to Bassetlaw residents.
	Blaby District Council
	Carmarthenshire County Council Carmarthenshire County Council have embedded three sustainable development officers into the waste section to ensure that sustainability is at the heart of waste management strategic thinking.
	Derbyshire County Council We encourage greater awareness of the benefits of recycling household waste and provide recycling facilities at the household waste recycling centres throughout the county. These include the recycling of metals, paper, glass, oil, textiles and green waste.
	East Lindsey District Council East Lindsey District Council have a 3 bin refuse, recycling and green waste collection service, where the bin for refuse is smaller than the bins for recycling and green waste. We collect each bin on an alternate weekly basis, and have a no side waste policy. We also have 102 recycling sites across the district for the collection of glass, which cannot be collected in the recycling bin. In addition we have installed on-street recycling bins in our main coastal towns. We support a subsidised Home Composting scheme run by WRAP (Waste Recycling Action Programme) where residents purchase home composters for £10 delivered. All fridges and freezers collected are recycled and so are our road sweepiings. We have a number of charities who collect furniture for reuse, to replace our bulky collection service where possible. We also work with a local not-for-profit organisation to collect recycling materials from schools in the district.
	The City of Edinburgh Council
	Horsham District Council Each suitable property in Horsham district has green baskets for recyclables. One week newspaper, magazines, catalogues and brochures are collected for recycling and the following week plastic bottles, cans and aerosols are collected for recycling. Once a fortnight a brown lidded wheeled bin for garden waste and non-corrugated card is collected, this is recycled in to compost. For an online personalised calendar please visit http://www.horsham.gov.uk and type in your postcode under waste collection dates. Throughout the district there are community recycling points for mixed glass, newspaper and magazines, textiles and shoes. For a full list of community recycling points click here. For further information on all of these services click here or telephone Horsham's Customer Care team on 01403 733144
	Medway District Council
	Milton Keynes Council Milton Keynes Council owns one of the most high-tech Materials Recycling Facilities in the UK, processing over 100 000 tonnes of recyclables from Milton Keynes and beyond every year. Regular tours of the facility are provided through the council's waste education programme. The council introduced the country's first borough-wide kerbside recycling scheme in the early 1990s. Paper, card, plastic bottles, cans, foil, glass bottles and jars, drink cartons, textiles and food and garden waste contribute to the town's 35% recycling rate. All the main shopping areas across the borough have street recycling bins, with litter pickers also recycling as much as they can. The Recycling Team also offer a real nappy cash-back scheme and reduced compost bins. Public Information Video
	Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council constantly encourage and educate residents with regards to the many methods of recycling. Ways of doing this include school visits, library surgeries and attending road shows to promote the services provided. We currently implement alternate weekly collections in which Plastics, Cardboard, Glass, Cans, Paper, and Garden Waste are collected alongside the standard household waste; all recycling rounds are based on EFW incineration, with a target of 9% going to landfill annually. The council ensures mattresses are shredded, and we currently have a 45% recovery rate on bulky waste, with remaining material split into what is conforming and what is not conforming to EFW incineration standards.
	Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council SABC are implementing alternate weekly collections to encourage recycling. We currently collect paper, cans, glass, textiles and batteries from the kerbside. Also garden waste and cardboard for composting. Bring sites are avaialble for books, plastic bottles and tetra pak too.
	South Northamptonshire Council South Northamptonshire Council is running a successful scheme to help boost our recycling figures, therefore diverting waste from landfill. We have 2 bins for most household, a green one for green waste and cardboard and a black one for domestic waste, and 2 boxes - black for cans and plastics, green for paper and glass. Boxes and bins are collected fortnightly in alternate colour pattern. We have school paper recycling bins, we support the County's Real Nappy campain, and we're currently considering our options on food waste collections and trade waste recycling.
	Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council
	Warrington Borough Council Please visit www.recycleforwarrington.co.uk for more information on current waste minimisation and recycling schemes within Warrington.
	West Lothian District Council Over 92% of households have access to our kerbside recycling scheme. We collect all our materials in wheelie bins. Plastic bottles, paper and cans are every fortnight and garden waste every 4 weeks excluding the winter months. Waste is collected every fortnight. The remaining 8% of properties are flats and we are in the process of introducing recycling collections to them. We have also recently refurbished our Community Recycling Centres, improving the layout and signage of these sites. We collect lots of different materials here including cartons. All of the council buildings have facilites to recycle paper, cans and plastic bottles and the vast majority of our schools recycle too. We offer a nappy incentive scheme and work with WRAP in promoting subsidised home compost bins.
	West Sussex County Council The RECLAIM West Sussex waste partnership supports all the recycling infrastructure and activities in the County. It is a major partnership comprising West Sussex County Council, it’s waste contractor Viridor Waste Management Ltd, all the District and Borough Councils in the County and the Environment Agency. The aim of RECLAIM West Sussex is to reduce the mountain of waste that needs to be managed in the County. This currently sits at approximately 462,000 (2006/07) tonnes per annum, rising to an estimated 550,000 by 2015. West Sussex County Council (WSCC) and the District and Borough councils work in partnership to cover a comprehensive waste prevention suite including Home Composting, Food Digesters, Real Nappies, The Green Club and Green Diggers trial initiative and the Waste Prevention Advisors (volunteer scheme). The Waste Prevention Advisor (WPA) scheme is assisting with the continuation of decoupling waste growth from economic growth. Our Waste Prevention Advisor (volunteers) are encouraged to assist with events and suggest ideas to improve behaviour and attitudes towards waste. Changing the way we manage our recycling and rubbish, which is a journey from Rubbish to Resource, is making an important contribution to improving the quality of life in West Sussex.