Norfolk County Council are pleased to announce that their first Pop-up Reuse Shop will be at Swaffham Market Place on Saturday 20th May from 8am till 3pm. You’ll find a treasure trove of items such as ornaments, pictures, toys, bicycles, small electrical items and much more. Everything in the shop has been donated to our…
12/05/23 | Read More
Would you like to start composting at home but don’t know how? Norfolk County Council are offering free compost workshops for beginners to show you how easy it is to start and be successful. Once you’ve attended a workshop you can order a 220 litre compost bin for £9 to help you get started. To…
19/04/23 | Read MoreNorfolk Recycles & Food Savvy Norfolk team up to support Food Waste Action Week 2023. Food Savvy and Norfolk Recycles have teamed up to support Food Waste Action week and will be launching their Ready, Steady, Save! tour, in the Forum, Norwich on the 7th March 2023. Food Waste Action Week returns 6 –…
06/03/23 | Read MoreShocking photos have emerged of balloon litter found this spring and summer along Norfolk’s otherwise un-spoilt coastline. The pictures have prompted a fresh call from the county council, and the North Norfolk Beach Cleaners collective, for people to choose other ways to celebrate or mark important events, instead of releasing balloons and sky lanterns. Balloons…
12/10/22 | Read More
Rooting for Nature, Norfolk County Council’s popular composting campaign is back to encourage more people to switch to composting at home and help reduce and recycle more of their waste. Cllr Eric Vardy, Cabinet Member for Environment and Waste, said: “Last year’s campaign was a huge success, with more than 2,800 compost bins sold during…
15/05/22 | Read More
A reusable cup scheme has been launched today as part of a drive for a Norfolk resort’s greenest ever holiday season. Cafes and restaurants in Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth, will offer customers a reusable cup from today to help put an end to single use disposable takeaway cups. Tea and coffee drinkers will be encouraged to…
20/04/22 | Read More
The latest in Norfolk’s growing chain of reuse shops opened on Friday 25 March, at Norwich South recycling centre. The bright, spacious, purpose-built shop is set to save 100 tonnes of good quality second-hand items from being thrown away each year. It has also been revealed today that the The Big C is the new…
29/03/22 | Read More
A FREE electrical, battery and textile collection service is coming to your home from week commencing 4 April. Items will be collected weekly on your rubbish and recycling bin collection day. Please place items in a tied weatherproof standard size carrier bag, or smaller, next to your rubbish or recycling bin by 6:30am for collection….
22/03/22 | Read More
Wastebuster, a leading not for profit environmental education company, has announced the launch of a “Hidden Treasure Hunt” competition for school kids. Waste Week 2022 is calling on over 3.8 million students and parents to make this the largest collection of e-waste in the UK. Over 200 schools signed up to Waste Week and Wastebuster…
22/03/22 | Read More
Norfolk County Council’s annual recycling centre survey is an opportunity for householders to give feedback about their local recycling centres. The survey runs every year to provide 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 don’t use them,…
11/03/22 | Read More
A competition to find Norfolk and Suffolk’s most Tasty Toastie launched this week, as new research from Food Savvy reveals that bread is the item of food most frequently thrown away by people living in Norfolk and Suffolk. Over a quarter (26%) of residents say they often throw unused bread in the bin, contributing to…
08/03/22 | Read More
Breckland residents are being encouraged to look out for information about changes to their household waste and recycling collections, which will be hitting doormats over the next three weeks. Serco, which provides waste collection services for Breckland Council, is making these changes to reduce the distances bin trucks are travelling to collect household rubbish each…
23/02/22 | Read More
Following its successful introduction in 2020, Sea Changers are pleased to announce the launch of the 2022 Coastal Fountain Fund. The purpose of the fund is to reduce the impact of single-use plastic water bottles on coastal habitats by funding communities to purchase water drinking fountains and install them for use by the public in…
13/01/22 | Read More
. Volunteers knitted lots of different foods to hang on the tree as well as making some more traditional scenes from recycling. You can see more pictures over on our social media. Community fridges provide business and individuals with the opportunity to share food that otherwise would have been wasted. They are public places where…
03/12/21 | Read More
As Christmas was very different last year, many of us are looking to go all out this year with all the bells and whistles. We’re here to help you have a wonderful celebration whilst staying in budget and not wasting food, it just requires a few savvy behaviours. Our Food Savvy Champions will be leading…
26/11/21 | Read More
New research from environmental charity Hubbub reveals some gourd news, as more and more people are viewing Halloween pumpkins as food and not just a decoration. The survey carried out by Censuswide asked 2,000 UK residents about their Halloween habits and reveals that 3 in 5 (59%) of pumpkins bought for carving were eaten last…
27/10/21 | Read More
Norfolk pupils set to turn plastic waste into bronze, silver and gold! Norfolk children will be leading the way on cutting plastic waste in their schools as they set their sights on gold in a new award scheme that launched today. Pupils at Bignold Primary School, Norwich, were the first to receive their certificates for…
29/09/21 | Read More
Recycle Week has been growing for 17 years, and we are aiming for this September’s to be the biggest yet. We need your help to make this happen. The Climate Crisis is a tough subject. But we’re a nation of even tougher subjects. The last 15 months have shown that. And while throughout the past…
20/09/21 | Read More
The Great British Beach Clean is a week-long citizen science event, where hundreds of beach cleans take place up and down the UK. This year’s Great British Beach Clean will take place between Friday 17th – Sunday 26th September 2021. Litter data collected drives our conservation work and also feeds into the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC). On every clean…
10/09/21 | Read More
Let Card Factory recycle your foil balloons. We are super proud to have partnered with Terracycle and Amscan to create a free foil product recycling programme. It’s super easy, simply take any foil balloon or banner to one of our 500 participating stores and place it in the cardboard box provided and TerraCycle will do the…
08/09/21 | Read More
Get involved in Oxfam’s Second Hand September. Join Second Hand September and pledge to shop only second hand for 30 days or more. You’ll give clothes a longer life by keeping them from landfill. And by shopping with Oxfam, you’ll be reinvesting your money into helping the poorest people on the planet earn a fair living…
01/09/21 | Read More
The campaign to SCRAP fly-tipping in west Norfolk continues with a successful prosecution. On 30 June 2021 a man, who pleaded guilty to dumping a sizable amount of domestic household waste on private land at Fisher Fleet on Cross Bank Road, King’s Lynn, was fined over £3400 in costs, fines and compensation. Cllr Paul Kunes,…
30/07/21 | Read MoreNorfolk Master Composters are delivering a series of composting webinar over the summer. The free webinars on Zoom will cover the basics of home composting, how to get the best out of your composting, what to do if you have problems with your compost, and there will be time for questions and answers. The dates…
23/07/21 | Read More
Norfolk County Council’s Household Hazardous Waste Day events are set to return this Autumn. This will also see the first event at the new Norwich North Recycling Centre. The next events are scheduled for September and October 2021: King’s Lynn – 9am-5pm 11 & 12 September Dereham – 9am-5pm 18 & 19 September Thetford– 9am-5pm 25 &…
22/07/21 | Read More
With the Government confirming that England will move on to step 4 of the roadmap from 19 July 2021, the borough council will resume weekly food caddy collections. Cllr Paul Kunes, Cabinet member for Environment at the Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, wants to encourage residents to dig out their kitchen caddy…
15/07/21 | Read More
A number of vehicle breakers offering illegal car parts have been removed from one of the world’s biggest online marketplaces, as part of an education campaign of 20,000 sellers. During a two-week trial in February, the Environment Agency (EA) and eBay UK joined forces to target vehicle breakers and parts sellers using the marketplace to…
30/06/21 | Read More
Norfolk County Council’s reuse shops are celebrating their partnership with the East Anglian Air Ambulance as the total raised for the charity in the 14 reuse shops hits £21,178. Despite many of the reuse shops having to close their doors at times throughout the last year, due to Covid 19 restrictions, they have continued to…
24/06/21 | Read More
Popular Bokashi compost bins are again joining a range of cut-price compost bins to suit gardens large and small as Norfolk is urged to Root for Nature. In the second year of a successful campaign the county’s waste and recycling team are calling for even more people to switch to composting at home to help…
02/06/21 | Read More
As the national Great British Spring Clean launches tomorrow, Friday 28 May, there’s good news for litter pickers as the county council announces that it is now able to accept litter at any of Norfolk’s recycling centres. From tomorrow anyone who has picked a small amount of litter in the county can now bring up…
27/05/21 | Read More
Not wasting food was high in the public mind during the inaugural Food Waste Action Week 2021. Partnering with celebrity cook, TV presenter and author Nadiya Hussain, Food Waste Action Week tackled food waste to help save the planet. Spreading the message that ‘Wasting Food Feeds Climate Change,’ the Week set the British public a…
19/05/21 | Read More
Did you know that it is estimated that an average of 35.8 million plastic bottles are used EVERY DAY in the UK, but only 19.8 million of those get recycled? This means there are on average 16 million plastic bottles a day not making their way into the recycling bin. Pledge2Recycle Plastics, part of the…
13/05/21 | Read More
WRAP has been working with the Scout Association to sponsor two badges focussing on waste reduction and recycling – Beavers Global Issues Badge and Scouts Environmental Conservation Badge You can see a short video here about their partnership. To find out more about how we are working with scouting in Norfolk visit our Scouting page.
27/04/21 | Read More
A campaign launching this week, is set to help drive down single-use product and plastic waste by calling on people to swap2save. By making small everyday changes, like swapping a take-away drink in a plastic bottle for a reusable and refillable water bottle, people will be able to save their money and cut waste. The…
23/03/21 | Read More
Lockdown unlocked the potential for food waste saving. A new Food Savvy campaign calls for people in Norfolk and Suffolk to share their food saving successes to help others do the same. A concerted regional effort to fight food waste launched this month, as “Food Savvy Unlocked,” the latest campaign from the Food Savvy partnership…
18/03/21 | Read More
Great Yarmouth Borough Council is reminding residents of the consequences of littering after securing another successful prosecution for a littering offence. Liam Frosdick, placed a bag of waste beside a locked commercial wheelie bin belonging to Broadland Rugby Club, on June 29, 2020. A member of the public looked in the bag and found paperwork…
11/03/21 | Read More
WASTING FOOD FEEDS CLIMATE CHANGE: Food Waste Action Week launches to help tackle climate emergency • The UK’s first ever Food Waste Action Week takes place 1-7th March • Partnering with Nadiya Hussain, Food Waste Action Week aims to tackle food waste in the home and help save the planet. • Preventing food going to…
27/02/21 | Read More
ANNOUNCING new dates for free Composting For Beginners online workshops this February and March 2021. Designed to help you get started or improve your composting you can now book your free workshop via the Home Composting Webinar Booking Form (google.com). 100% of people who have attended workshops before said it had given them the confidence…
11/02/21 | Read MoreNorfolk 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…
11/02/21 | Read More
Do you feel passionate about food? Then you might be interested in getting involved in our Food Savvy project which helps people make the most of their food and waste less. We are looking for people who would like to become Food Savvy Champions and are willing to share their knowledge with others on how to…
15/01/21 | Read More
Looking for a way to keep the children entertained while they’re studying at home? Norfolk recycles can help! We’ve put together a set of fun, interactive activity sheets covering a range of environmentally themed topics. Have a go at a recycling word search, go on a compost creature hunt, try cooking with leftovers or get…
14/01/21 | Read More
Typically, a household produces thirty percent more waste during the festive period than at any other time, and with more people spending Christmas at home this year, this figure is set to increase. Therefore, people across Norfolk are being asked to do their bit to help reduce waste and increase recycling over the festive period….
30/11/20 | Read More
Food Savvy, a collaborative food waste reduction campaign led by Norfolk County Council, Suffolk Waste Partnership and environmental charity Hubbub, is here to help households to reduce food waste and save money this Christmas. It is estimated that UK residents will waste the equivalent of 54 million platefuls of food during December. This not only…
26/11/20 | Read More
Did you know, we throw away around 30% more rubbish at Christmas? The good news is there are lots of things we can all do to help to reduce this, like choosing gifts with no packaging, using up leftover food, reusing wrapping materials and recycling as much as we can. We’d like to encourage as…
25/11/20 | Read More
All recycling centres are open with social distancing measures in place Following the Government’s announcement on 31 October of an England-wide lockdown we are pleased to say that all of Norfolk’s Recycling Centres will remain open as normal. Unfortunately, none of the Reuse shops will be allowed to open. For further details please click here….
03/11/20 | Read More
ANNOUNCING new dates for free Composting For Beginners online workshops this Autumn. Designed to help you get started or improve your composting you can now book your free workshop via the booking form. 100% of people who have attended workshops before said it had given them the confidence to start or continue composting. All workshops…
14/10/20 | Read More
Refill are on a mission to make living with less plastic easier and they’re beyond excited to FINALLY be able to reveal that they’re taking the Refill campaign to the next level. From TODAY, you can now use the Refill app to find out where to refill not just your water bottle, but also your…
01/10/20 | Read More
New stats show we care more about the environment than ever before. The theme for Recycle Now’s 17th annual Recycle Week is to thank the people Norfolk for continuing to recycle despite all that has happened this year. Statistics released by Recycle Now show that through lockdown the UK has become even more environmentally aware,…
21/09/20 | Read More
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
Norfolk County Council is launching Rooting for Nature, a campaign to spread the word on the benefits of home composting, which will include a live Q&A hosted on the County Council’s Facebook page on Thursday 7 May, beginning at 7pm. As part of the campaign, Norfolk County Council has teamed up with Get Composting to…
02/05/20 | 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 MoreAll Reuse Shops at Norfolk’s Recycling Centres are now closed (from 11am Monday 23 March 2020)until further notice, we have made this decision after following advice on COVID-19 (Coronavirus). The Reuse shops are located at the following Recycling Centres: Ashill, Bergh Apton, Caister, Dereham, Heacham, Ketteringham, King’s Lynn, Mayton Wood, Snetterton, Strumpshaw, Thetford, Wells-next-the-Sea and…
23/03/20 | Read More
If you have been isolating due to a suspected case of Coronavirus it is important that you dispose of your waste differently to help avoid the spread of the virus. Personal waste (such as used tissues, disposable cleaning cloths, gloves and other PPE ) should be stored securely within disposable rubbish bags. These bags should…
19/03/20 | 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 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
