North Norfolk District Council is delighted to announce the re-launch of the popular Community Fridge in North Walsham. Now located in the Community Shop on Market Street, the Fridge is part of a wider effort to tackle food waste. The aim is to ‘recycle’ good quality foodstuffs that local food outlets have as surplus, and…
15/09/20 | Read More
Pioneering food saving campaign #FoodSavvy, a partnership between Norfolk County Council, Suffolk Waste Partnership, and environmental charity Hubbub are very pleased to announce the winners and runners up of the month-long Delicious Drawings competition, in collaboration with the East of England Co-op. The competition challenged primary aged children to create a colourful design around saving…
18/08/20 | Read More
Norfolk County Council have released the dates for this year’s Household Hazardous Waste Day events. The next events are scheduled for September and October 2020: Mayton Wood – 9am-5pm 4, 5, 6 September King’s Lynn – 9am-5pm 11, 12, 13 September Thetford – 9am-5pm 18, 19, 20 September Ketteringham – 9am-5pm 25, 26, 27 September Dereham – 9am-4pm 2, 3,…
05/08/20 | Read More
This summer Norfolk County Council and Norfolk Recycles are inviting all primary school aged children and their families to complete our Summer Recycling Challenge and become Recycling Champions. We’ve put together a series of six different waste related activities – one to complete each week of the holidays. With exciting ideas like bug hunts, baking,…
20/07/20 | Read More
‘Upcycle your Waste’ is a new international three year-project brought to you by Norwich BID and Interreg. This ambitious, Europe-wide project has Norwich as one of only two cities involved representing the UK. Norwich BID is working with six other partners in four countries (Economisch Huis Oostend, Kent County Council, Katholieke Hogeschool Vives Zuid, OD…
14/07/20 | Read More
Over the last few weeks Norfolk County Council and it’s contractors have been working hard to reopen Norfolk’s recycling centres. The opening of Docking and Wereham Recycling Centres today (Friday 3 July) means that all of Norfolk’s recycling centres are now open. Please check Norfolk County Council’s website where details and information will be posted ….
03/07/20 | Read More
Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste. Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? Join the…
25/06/20 | Read More
Morningthorpe and Worstead Recycling Centres open today (Thursday 4 June). These sites mean that all of Norfolk’s full time sites are now open and bring the total number of reopened sites in the county to fourteen. Please check Norfolk County Council’s website where details will be posted . Thank you to everyone who has been…
04/06/20 | Read More
From tomorrow (Monday 1 June) Mile Cross Recycling Centre will open for longer, with new hours of 9am to 7pm, this is an increase from the initial opening hours when the site opened on 11 May. Whilst the aim is to get back to the normal services offered as quickly as possible there are some…
31/05/20 | Read More
Ashill, Heacham and Strumpshaw Recycling Centres reopened on Thursday 28 May and it is anticipated that further sites will reopen next week. Please check Norfolk County Council’s website where details will be posted . Thank you to everyone who has been patient and followed the guidelines to help us keep all our visitors and staff…
29/05/20 | Read More
Sheringham Recycling Centre will become the ninth to reopen in Norfolk following the success of eight centres that reopened last week. Sheringham Recycling Centre will reopen to the public having closed on 24 March and becomes the second in the North Norfolk District Council area after Hempton Recycling Centre which opened on 11 May. Whilst…
22/05/20 | Read MorePioneering food saving campaign #FoodSavvy launches a month-long Delicious Drawings competition, this Wednesday 20 May, in collaboration with East of England Co-op. Children are invited to draw a picture which shows us how you can stop tasty food from ending up in the bin. The competition will inspire primary school children in Norfolk to get…
21/05/20 | Read More
Reopening eight of Norfolk’s recycling centres has been a positive example of how lockdown restrictions can be eased while physical distancing measures are successfully implemented. The public have made a massive contribution to the success of the reopening process by following the advice on site and traffic management around the sites, all designed to keep…
20/05/20 | Read More
Norfolk County Council is re-opening eight of its larger recycling centres on Monday 11 May so that Norfolk householders can dispose of waste and recycling that may have built up at home and has started to pose a health and safety risk since the Government announced its ‘lockdown’ measures. All twenty of Norfolk’s recycling centres have been…
07/05/20 | Read More
Great Yarmouth Borough Council will be re-starting fortnightly collections of garden waste, from Monday, May 11. Their brown bins scheme was postponed temporarily on March 30 in order to allow crews to prioritise collections of black/grey general rubbish bins, green recycling bins and clinical waste. Garden waste collection is an opt-in paid-for scheme, so customers’…
07/05/20 | Read More
Live Q&A with Emma Crowhurst on Facebook Wednesday 8 April 2020 at 5:30 @Hubbub Food Savvy is a collaborative partnership between Hubbub and, Norfolk and Suffolk Councils to help people make the most of their food and reduce food waste. Currently we are bringing people together (remotely) by talking about good food and sharing skills;…
07/04/20 | Read More
All recycling centres across Norfolk will be closed after today, until further notice. The decision to close your recycling centres has not been taken lightly but it is essential to encourage residents to stay at home and do all we can to limit the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19), we need to protect our customers and…
24/03/20 | Read More
In light of the current COVID-19 situation, new guidelines are being temporarily introduced at Recycling Centres. Staff are working hard to keep you protected with regular cleaning schedules in place and as part of this have introduced new safe practices for you to follow when on site which include: Ideally wear gloves when visiting the…
18/03/20 | Read More
The Broadland Recycling Team have started a recycling project on the area surrounding Atlantic Avenue estate in Sprowston that addresses recycling behaviours. They hope to engage residents in the recycling process and to encourage the right things going in the right bin. The project includes the trial of an indoor container to store and sort…
11/03/20 | Read More
Planned roadworks will affect the access to Mile Cross recycling centre next weekend. The Heigham Street and Mile Cross Road junction will be closed to all traffic from 9am on Friday, March 13 until 6am on Monday, March 16. Access to the Mile Cross recycling centre is only possible from Mile Cross Road. The weekend-long…
05/03/20 | Read More
Saturday 18 March 2020 Every year, the earth yields billions of tons of natural resources to transform into consumables. At some point, there will be nothing left. That’s why we must, as a planet, think again about what we throw away seeing not waste, but opportunity. Global Recycling Day was created in 2018 to help recognize,…
27/02/20 | Read More
From 17 February – 29 March, people will be able to take a look at plans for a brand new £1.9million recycling centre to the south of Norwich. A new larger modern recycling centre at Harford could replace the current site at Ketteringham. This site would complement the planned new recycling centre to the north…
25/02/20 | Read More
Norfolk County Council’s annual recycling centre survey is an opportunity for householders to provide us with feedback about our recycling centres. The survey is run each year to give us an ongoing picture of what is working well, what could be improved and how residents are using the household waste recycling centres. Even if you…
14/02/20 | Read More
Norfolk County Council and Action for Children launched a new Community Fridge in Norwich, last week, in a growing effort to tackle food waste. Located at Earlham Early Childhood and Family Service centre on Motum Road in Norwich, the fridge will be open from 10am to 4pm Monday to Thursday for residents and businesses to…
11/02/20 | Read More
The Big South Norfolk Litter Pick launches today. Each spring, South Norfolk District Council works with communities and community groups to help reduce litter in South Norfolk by asking them to take part in the Big Litter Pick. This initiative encourages communities to work together to keep their villages or towns clean and tidy. South…
01/02/20 | Read More
The Norfolk Makers Festival brings sixteen days of inspiring exhibitions, creative activities, workshops, demonstrations, talks and crafty conversation to the The Forum, in Norwich, and to venues around the county. This year the festival is full of repair, up-cycling and reuse events and talks; visit our events page to see our picks. The Norfolk Makers’…
21/01/20 | Read More
