This Earth Day. Reduce-Reuse-Recycle🌍

Recycling saves tonnes of CO2 a year ♻️ find out what you can recycle norfolkrecycles.com

Shop second-hand 👚. Check out our reuse shops. Norfolk Reuse Shops

Use a reusable cup or water bottle & reduce single-use plastic. 🧴

How can you prevent fly-tipping?

Refuse offers to have your rubbish taken away. It could be fly-tipped and you could be fined.

#Scrapflytipping norfolkrecycles.com/scrapflytipping

How can you prevent fly-tipping? Step 2: CHECK!

Check that a waste carrier is registered on the Environment Agency service - environment.data.gov.uk/public-registe…. Note down the registration number of the vehicle used to take your waste away.

How can you prevent fly-tipping?
Step one: SUSPECT⚠️

Don't let anyone take your waste until they have proven themselves to be legitimate. Always follow the S.C.R.A.P. code - together, let's #SCRAPflytipping

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Whether it's a little or a lot, it's illegal. Stay on the right side of the law and use your councils bulky waste collection. #ScrapFlytipping

On average, in Norfolk, a 1/3 of general waste bins is food waste. A lot of this could be composted or go in your food waste caddy if available.

We have lots of information on our website to help you start your composting journey 👉ow.ly/pA6E50QnsEL

Vapes should never go in your household rubbish or recycling. ❌

Vapes contain batteries and have the power to start fires when the batteries hidden inside are crushed or damaged in recycling and bin lorries.

If you've chocolates left over from the weekend, continue to make egg-cellent recycling choices.

Eat all the chocolate 🍫. Recycle the packaging ♻️.

Clean tin foil and foil trays, like the foil from Easter eggs, CAN be recycled!

Top Tip – Scrunch the foil into a ball as it makes it easier to recycle.

♻️Tin Foil✅
♻️Foil Trays✅

Happy Easter 🐣

Eat. 🍫 Recycle. ♻️ Repeat. 🔄

Bin collection days may differ over the Easter period.🐣

Check your collection dates over on our website. 👉 norfolkrecycles.com/easter

Getting egg-cited for Easter yet? 🐣

Where ever you live in Norfolk you can recycle...Everything but the Egg! ♻️

All of the packaging can go in your recycling bin. Just make sure you've eaten the chocolate first! Find out more here norfolkrecycles.com/easter

Fly-tipping costs!

Leaving items by street bins, by recycling banks or your waste taken away by unlicensed waste carriers to then be dumped is all fly-tipping. Always follow the SCRAP code. #Scrapflytipping

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If you come across fly-tipping, report it.

Refill your water bottle on the go with the refill app 💙 norfolkrecycles.com/refill-norfolk/

#WorldWaterDay

⚠ Fly tipping is the illegal dumping of waste and includes leaving items beside street bins and recycling banks, on the floor of communal bin areas and outside closed charity shops and recycling centres.

Global Recycling Day.

Glass, Plastic, Paper, Tin - All go in your recycling bin. ♻️

It's not waste until you waste it.

Before you throw something away, think, could someone else make use of this. If so, offer it on Freegle!

Did you know if you're caught fly-tipping at a recycling bank you could receive a Fixed Penalty Notice?
➡️If there is no space in the bank take it home.

#SCRAP Flytipping #SCRAP #ReportIt