The Recycle for Cornwall campaign has been developed to raise public awareness of recycling and to provide consumers with a compelling reason to recycle.
Recycling in Penwith is collected from households fortnightly through a green box scheme. Collections are on the same day as your normal household waste collection. The green boxes are made from 100% recycled plastics, demonstrating just one of the many useful products that can be made from recycled materials. Red sacks are also issued for the collection of textiles. Recycling will be collected from 7am.
Your kerbside recycling collection
In the GREEN BOX place:
ALUMINIUM FOIL - Please place in a separate carrier bag.
CANS - FOOD, DRINKS AND AEROSOL CANS - Please rinse (Cans containing deposits of food will not be collected)
GLASS BOTTLES & JARS - all colours, whole not broken, please rinse and remove lids.
PAPER - newspapers, magazines, brochures, leaflets, letters, white envelopes, junk mail, greeting cards, white telephone directories
In the RED BAG place:
TEXTILES - Clean clothing, pairs of shoes, hats, bags, household linen, drapery (all sacks securely tied please to keep them dry)
The following items are recyclable in Penwith but are unable to be collected at kerbside - please take these to your nearest recycling point
MIXED PAPER BANKS - Yellow Pages, cardboard, egg boxes, boxes, brown paper envelopes.
"...I visit Cornwall as often as I can, and I love its beautiful countryside and coastline. Through recycling we can all do something worthwhile to safeguard its future. As much as 60% of the rubbish in our bins could be recycled and transformed into something useful. Recycling is easy to do and really does help to protect the county we love..."
Alex Kirby - BBC News website environment correspondent
"...I visit Cornwall as often as I can, and I love its beautiful countryside and coastline. Through recycling we can all do something worthwhile to safeguard its future. As much as 60% of the rubbish in our bins could be recycled and transformed into something useful. Recycling is easy to do and really does help to protect the county we love..."