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Waste and recycling
Green waste
- Garden waste collection service (kerbside green waste collections scheme)
- Composting
- Christmas tree recycling and safe disposal
- WSCC website : Waste Prevention - for better tomorrows (www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/category.jsp?categoryID=955134&g11n.enc=UTF-8)
- WSCC
website : Advice on home composting (www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/content/environment/rubbish-waste-and-recycling/waste-prevention/home-composting.jsp)
Garden waste collection service (kerbside green waste collections scheme)
Note
: From 14th April 2008 the garden waste service will be run by Adur & Worthing
Council Services (AWS).
- AWS leaflet about new wheeled bins service (.PDF 461kb)
This service is available to all Adur residents and collections are made on the same day as your refuse. All garden waste is taken to a licensed site to process into composting.
Only use the wheelie bins or printed sacks (sacks are available for 50p from one of the approved outlets listed below).
- For more information about the new wheeled bin service see : AWS website (www.aws.gov.uk/CollectionServices/GardenWaste)
Please refer to the list below to see what can and cannot go in the wheelie bins or sacks.
Note : From 14th April 2008 garden waste sacks or
wheelie bins should be put out alongside your normal household waste and
will be collected on the same day (by the same vehicle), collections will
occur on your refuse day - there is no need to phone for collections. If
you have garden waste for collection and DO NOT have a garden waste wheelie
bin, please ensure your garden waste sack is left at the front edge of your
property by 6:30am on the day your normal refuse collection takes place.
We are now providing a drive-past service which picks up any garden waste
sacks left outside the property. If your garden waste sack is at the front
edge of your property by 6:30am on the day your normal refuse collection
and we fail to collect it on that day, you should ring our normal missed
bins reporting line on (01903) 851729 and select option 2.
What to put in your garden waste :
- Grass cuttings and weeds
- Dead cut flowers and plants
- Uncooked vegetable and fruit peelings
- Fallen leaves
- Hedge clippings
What not to put in your garden waste :
Adur District Council reserves the right to refuse collection should your sacks be contaminated with any of these items :
- Normal household waste
- Meat, fish, cheese or any food prepared with these
- Cooked left overs and plate scrapings - raw or cooked
- Dog and cat faeces
- Soil and rubble
- Japanese Knotweed
Alternatively the civic amenity site at Brighton Road, Shoreham, accepts garden waste.
Adur Green Waste sacks retail outlets :
Please refer to the list below to see what can and cannot go in the sacks.
Fill the special sacks with garden waste only.
- Lancing
- ADC Housing Office 101 North Road.
- B&C Attwater Post Office 8 Seadown Parade, Bowness Avenue.
- Broadway Stores & Post Office 393 Brighton Road.
- Gardner & Scardifield Hardware Shop Penhill Road.
- Gardner & Scardifield Garden Centre, 1-3 South St.
- Fircroft News 92 Manor Road.
- Sussex Drug Stores 6 Queen’s Parade North Road.
- Shoreham
- Southlands Post Office, 272 Upper Shoreham Road
- Mansell Road Post Office, 61 Mansell Road.
- ADC Civic Centre, Cash Office, Ham Road.
- Craft News 30 Kingston Broadway.
- Shoreham Beach
- Beach Green Stores 134 Beach Road.
- Southwick
- ADC Housing Office 21 Southwick Street.
- Sussex Drug Stores 20 Southwick Square.
Composting
Composting at home
Composting is nature's way of recycling and can reduce your household refuse
by up to 30%. Surveys indicate that one in three households in Adur have
a composting unit.
Adur works in partnership with West Sussex County Council to offer you quality compost bins at subsidised prices. Simply call Adur Council on (01273) 263133 to request further details or ring the supplier, Blackwall, direct on 0845 073 2002.
Alternatively garden centres sell a range of composters for use in your garden.
For more information about home composting see the Recycle for West Sussex website (www.recycleforwestsussex.org/composting) or Recycle Now website (home composting) (http://www.recyclenow.com/home_composting/) (which also has an animation to show what actually goes on during the decomposition process inside the bin) or the Recycle Now website (compost) (www.recyclenow.com/compost).
Please note that you should not compost Japanese Knotweed.
Composting at household waste recycling sites or with the kerbside green waste collections scheme
If you take your household garden waste along to the household waste recycling sites in Brighton Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, or use the kerbside green waste collections scheme (see above) (www.aws.gov.uk/CollectionServices/GardenWaste/) it is taken to a composting facility where it recycled into 'Reclaim organic soil conditioner'. This is then bagged and made available for sale in 40 litre bags at the household waste recycling sites across West Sussex - except for East Grinstead and Worthing sites (see WSCC website for details of the household waste recycling site locations : www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ArticleSection:{id=1685596}]).
Reclaim organic soil conditioner is ideal for potting, planting, flower bed and border preparation and maintenance, and lawn construction. It improves soil drainage, workability & structure, increases water holding capacity of soils (minimising watering requirements), assists root development and provides slower nutrient release - so the benefits last longer. It is a 100% recycled product produced in West Sussex, is peat free and contains no artifical chemicals.
For more information about Reclaim organic soil conditioner see the Recycle for West Sussex website (www.recycleforwestsussex.org/composting/reclaim_soil_conditioner).
Christmas tree recycling and safe disposal
In
January of each year Adur District Council provides facilities for recycling
Christmas trees.
Your real Christmas trees should be put out from the 12th Janury 2009 on refuse collection days - the garden waste is collected weekly and resumes on this date so Christmas trees will be collected if put out.
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