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Somerset Waste Partnership manages recycling and waste services on behalf of Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset and West Somerset District Councils, Taunton Deane Borough Council and Somerset County Council. Click here to sign up to our bi-monthly e-mail news bulletin.

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Can we improve business waste recycling services in West Somerset?
We will be in Dunster on February 18th to ask local businesses that question. Click to find out how you can make your voice count.
Household battery recycling"take back" scheme starts
From February 1st more shops will provide drop off points for recycling batteries. Click here for details.
Sedgemoor SORT-IT PLUS

There is a permanent display of the new collection containers at Sedgemoor District Council offices, King Square, Bridgwater, TA6 3AR.

Free home compost champion training
Somerset Waste Action Programme is offering free home composting training on Saturday 20th February. For more information please click here.
South Somerset recycling banks
For more information on recycling banks in South Somerset, please click here.
Now open, Chard Recycling Centre

Chard’s new Recycling Centre has opened.  For more information on the site, please click here.

New business waste recycling facility in West Somerset

The new business waste recycling facility at Williton Household Waste Recycling Centre is now open to small and medium sized business. Please click here for further information.

“Love where you Live”
Photographic competition, run by Alupro, a not for profit organisation funded by leading aluminium packaging producers.  For more information please visit – www.lovewhereyoulive.org.uk  or download this leaflet.  Closing date, 28th February 2010.
 
Why Somerset's kerbside collection service is so successful
A short film produced by collection contractor May Gurney that explains why the things we do here in Somerset are changing recycling services across the country. Click here to see it.
 
"End Use Register" - Where does your recycling go?

What happens to all the materials we collect for recycling. Click here for a full copy of the End Use register

SORT IT PLUS
Sort It Plus vehicle on round

Following trial collections of cardboard and plastic bottles Somerset Waste Partnership is now rolling out collections across Taunton Deane and Sedgemoor in phases. mendip, South Somerset and West Somerset districts have all expressed support for the scheme and plan to join when economic conditions allow.

Click here to download the final report

or click here for more information on the trials
 

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Recycling and Refuse Collections
   
Food waste caddy with liner
Liners for food waste bins
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Black refuse bin
Bank Holiday Revised Collections
   
Bulky waste collection of a mattress
Bulky waste collection
   
Clinical waste - syringe
Clinical waste collection
   
Home compost bin
Home compost bin offer
   
Junk Mail Pack
   
Baby in cloth nappy
Cloth nappies
   
Household hazardous waste (.pdf)
   
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