NEWS FREE BAG FOR LIFE

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1 Oldham RECYCLING Recycling News 1 NEWS FREE BAG FOR LIFE Recycle for Greater Manchester and Oldham Council are working together to promote recycling across Fitton Hill. Residents living in the area will be given the chance to collect their FREE bag for life from local shops by recycling correctly on Monday 29th September or Monday 13th October. Write your address on the tag inside this leaflet and attach it to your brown bin if you think you have recycled correctly. If you have, you will receive a token to claim your free bag for life. Continue to page 2. FREE FOOD WASTE EVENT! A free food waste event is set to be held at The Brew on Saturday 4th October. Residents will get to taste creative new recipes using basic ingredients. Continues on page 3. LOCAL SHOPS SELL FOOD WASTE LINERS FOR 3p Residents of Fitton Hill will soon be able to purchase compostable liners from local shops at a discounted price. Shops in the area will be stocking the liners over the coming months. Continues on page 4. This has been funded with the contribution of the LIFE Financial instrument of the European Union. LIFE11 ENV/UK/000389

2 2 Oldham Recycling News Oldham Recycling News 3 HOW TO CLAIM YOUR FREE BAG FOR LIFE Follow the simple steps below to claim your free bag for life: STEP 1: STEP 2: STEP 3: STEP 4: Write your address on the wheelie bin tag provided with this leaflet. Have a glance at page 6 of this leaflet to see what items you can put in your BROWN bin. If you think your BROWN bin has the right items in, attach the tag to the handle before you put it out for collection on Monday 29th September or Monday 13th October. If your bin has the correct items in you will receive a token through your letter box so you can claim your free bag for life. THE BREW CAFÉ HOSTS FOOD WASTE EVENT Come along to our food waste event and pick up your FREE ingredient and recipe pack! STEP 5: Take your token with you when you visit any of our stockists. (Listed below). Hand it in to a member of staff in exchange for your free bag for life. EVENT DETAILS: BAG FOR LIFE STOCKISTS Exchange your token for your free bag for life from any of the stockists below. ASHTON ROAD Coopers Café 592 Ashton Road Lomas Pharmacy 586 Ashton Road Sue s Café 576 Ashton Road The Pet Stop 582 Ashton Road THE GREEN Post Office 5 Woodstock Green Premier 1 Woodstock Green Village Kitchen 2 Woodstock Green FITTON HILL SHOPPING PRECINCT Fitton Hill Library Shopping Precinct The Brew 1 Shopping Precinct Villages Housing 2 Fircroft Avenue THE BREW CAFÉ, FITTON HILL SHOPPING PRECINCT. SATURDAY 4TH OCTOBER: 12PM - 2PM. Recycle for Greater Manchester and Oldham Council are teaming up with Cracking Good Food and The Brew Cafe to host a free food waste event for the residents of Fitton Hill. Cracking Good Food will be showing a cooking demonstration before giving out FREE ingredient packs and recipe cards so residents can go home and try it out for themselves. The aim of the event is to inspire people to use original ingredients in a different way, but also to eat healthier and waste less food. By incorporating foods such as old tins and stale bread into your meals it saves on food waste, which ultimately, saves you money! WE HOPE TO SEE AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE!

3 4 Oldham Recycling News Oldham Recycling News 5 GET IN LINE! Residents will soon be able to purchase compostable liners, which allow them to recycle their food waste using green food caddies, at a discounted price. The liners will be available for just 3p each and can be purchased from local shops. The liners can be used as an alternative to carrier bags to take home goods as well as being used to recycle food waste. ANY QUESTIONS? How will this project work? COMING SOON: Residents will soon be able to buy food waste liners from local shops for 3p Oldham Council wants to trial a project which will replace plastic bags within your local community. The Council wishes to introduce a new compostable liner which can be used by residents to take home their shopping before being used to recycle their food waste. Why use compostable bags instead of plastic bags? In the UK last year we used 4 billion plastic bags. The majority of these bags will be used once and then disposed of into landfill where they take up to 200 years to rot away. A compostable bag can be used for the same purpose but has a second life to be used within a resident s home to recycle food waste. Why can t people use plastic bags in their food collection service? Oldham Council takes all the food waste it collects to a facility where it is turned into compost within 6 weeks. Plastic bags do not rot down quick enough within the process and actually make it harder to recycle the food into compost. Plastic bags are therefore considered as contamination. Very soon we will not be able to collect any food that is put out by residents in plastic bags. WE RE HAPPY TO HELP! We would like to say a HUGE thank you to all of the local businesses and organisations that are supporting our campaign! Local businesses and organisations in the area are assisting with our campaign in many ways and we d like to send out a big thank you! When you visit the local shops that are helping us out, you will see many different recycling messages and will be provided with recycling information. Shopkeepers and staff have been trained to answer any quick queries, but if you have any suggestions, requests, complaints or questions, look out for our feedback boxes on counters and in entrances, and pop a note inside, leave your details, and an officer will get back to you. GOT SOME TIME TO SPARE? We still need more help spreading the word of recycling! Do you have a little spare time to help us? Even if it s a quick 10 minute chat to your neighbours about recycling or helping someone put their bins out it still counts! For more information on becoming a Recycling Ambassador contact Abbie: or abigail.reed@gmwda.gov.uk WE SUPPORT RECYCLING! Coopers Café Fitton Hill Library Fitton Hill Post Office Lomas Pharmacy Premier Sue s Café The Brew The Pet Stop The Village Kitchen Villages Housing

4 What can be recycled in the brown bins? What can be recycled in the blue bins? Aerosol cans Drinks cans Foil and foil trays Cardboard Cartons Catalogues and directories Food cans Glass bottles and jars Plastic bottles only Envelopes and junk mail Newspapers and magazines Wrapping paper and cards These are the ONLY items which can go in your brown recycling bin ONLY items that are made out of paper and cardboard can go in this bin. FACT! The only plastic items that can be recycled in your brown bin are plastic bottles. TIP! The more you recycle the more room you will have in your grey bin!

5 What can be recycled in the green bins? Bones Food Scrapings Garden Waste Hedge Trimmings Shells, skins and peelings Teabags These are the ONLY items which can go in your green recycling bin FACT! You don t have to put your food waste in compostable liners you can put it straight into your green bin!