TAKE OUR SURVEY!
WasteAware has signed up to the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, which has started to show positive results and helped lead to a saving nationwide of nearly £300 million. Help us to address the issue of unnecessary food waste in Hertfordshire by taking our survey.
COMPOST AWARENESS WEEK
Millions of tonnes of household waste could be saved from landfill each year if we all made the most of our compost, according to the Recycle Now campaign, launching this year’s Compost Awareness Week which runs from 3-9 May.
WasteAware Secondary School Education Programme 2009
Following a successful 2008 campaign the WasteAware Partnership is pleased to announce that the secondary school education programme will be repeated for 2009. However, for 2009 the theme will be litter and rubbish. The programme will enable Year 8 and Year 9 pupils in 30 Hertfordshire schools to view the CragRats "Litter is Rubbish" theatre production and to produce their own Litter Awareness project to encourage other students, friends and families to keep Hertfordshire tidy! For more information please follow the link above.
WASTE AWARENESS SCHOOL COMPETITION 2008: WINNERS ANNOUNCED
After a successful second run of WasteAware's 'Talking Trash' school plays, Mount Grace School in Potters Bar emerged triumphant, scooping the £1,000 first prize in the waste-awareness raising competition for Hertfordshire secondary school students.
RECYCLE NOW REVEALS HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING HOTSPOTS
WasteAware and WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) have highlighted a series of 'hotspots' in the home of 'forgotten' items of recyclable household waste to mark the start of Recycle Week (2nd-6th June 2008).
RECYCLED COMPUTERS GIVE MEGABOOST TO CHARITIES
Several charities have been handed computers made from refurbished PCs donated by Hertfordshire residents.
LOCAL SCHOOLS RECYCLING BANNER LAUNCHES NEW LOOK RECYCLING CENTRE
The bright ideas of school children from Rickmansworth inspired a local artist to create a number of different recycling characters for the official opening of the refurbished Rickmansworth Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC), which is now bigger and better than ever before.