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Now is a great time of year to have a clear out. How about freeing space in your spare room or make it easier to get the barbecue in and out? Reusing unwanted items is even better for the environment than recycling them, and could be a great find for somebody else, so why not try one of these ways to reuse more?

Melton and District Furniture Project collects unwanted, good quality furniture, electrical items and bric-a-brac. These are then available to the public at low prices. Their web site has further information.

Freeuse and Freecycle are both online services for donating and receiving usable household items locally. Items can be of any size and value and no money changes hands. The person who receives an item should expect to collect it.

Regular car boot sales take place within Melton Borough in Bottesford and in Melton Mowbray.

There are several charity shops in Melton Mowbray town centre. Items donated should be in a reasonable state and most shops will recycle any items they can not sell.

If you have a passion for recycling like myself and enjoy going to music festivals then I may know of the perfect opportunity for you to help promote recycling this summer. Reading festival are looking for volunteers to help promote their recycling initiatives at the festival in August. Check out their website http://www.readingfestival.com/info/index.aspx?id=406 I have just submitted my form so fingers crossed!

How did recycling week go for you? Did you manage to recycle unwanted electrical items? I took an unwanted TV to my local British Heart Foundation, and I borrowed a lawnmower from my Dad instead of buying a new one. Please don’t forget to recycle all your unwanted electrical items at your nearest BHF shop it’s for a good cause too!

This year Recycle Week will take place between 21 – 27 June. The focus  this year will be on small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). People are going to be encouraged to recycle their electical equipment as well as making a pledge to hire, borrow and reuse items instead of buying electrical products in the future. http://www.recyclenow.com/

British Heart Foundation are the charity partner teaming up with recycle now to promote recycling week. Our nearest BHF furniture and Electrical store is at: 40-41 White Rock, Hastings.

Garden waste collections.

The good weather which we have recently recieved, has seen the increased usage of the garden waste wheelie bins. This is great news, last week we collected 271.4 tonnes of garden waste, which meant we recycled 48.2% of  waste produced.  Keep up the good work Rother!

Summer is hotting up and with another bank holiday on the way, we know plenty of you will be busy in the garden. Last year we collected around 6,000 tonnes of waste from gardens in Melton to be composted. The grass cuttings, hedge trimmings and other garden waste are perfect for turning into a rich compost at the farm site in Melton Borough.

Please remember to keep soil, big stones and branches thicker than your thumb out of the brown bins, and any other non-compostable waste such as general rubbish should never be put in the brown bins. We also cannot take food of any sort in the brown bins.

However this does not mean that you have to put food waste in your black bin instead, and you can also recycle most of the goodness in your garden by composting it yourself. The County Council offers compost bins at reduced prices and you can get more information by following this link.

You can really make the most of your garden this summer by making the most of your garden waste.

In Briton the average person throws away £13.30 worth of wasted food per month, a total of £159.60 per year. Just think what you could use this money for instead! Nationwide this amounts to   £7,660,800,000 of food ending up in the bin each year. Yoghurts, sandwich meat and lettuce are the most commons things to throw away. In the western world this amounts to 30% of our household waste collected from our homes.

We need to prevent this food from being wasted in the first place and think of ways to do this: e.g. planning ahead when food shopping, only buy what you need, look at how we store the food and understand the useby dates.

Obviously we understand there is going to be some food waste especially from fuit and vegetable scraps/ peelings, tea bags and egg shells. For these compostable items home composters and the green cone are great for disposing of such items, which means your preventing toxic green house gasses being emitted into the environment, at the same time your producing compost for the garden.

Green cone limited sell the green cones and composters- their website is  http://www.greencone.com/