Residents with furniture too good to throw are now able to ensure it gets a new lease of life with a dedicated ‘reuse container’. Kent County Council’s (KCC) Household Waste Recycling Centre at Tovil, managed on behalf of KCC by Commercial Services Group, has delivered the initiative in partnership with charity Making a Difference to…
Kent County Council (KCC) Chairman, Lesley Game, has cut the ribbon at the new Allington Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) ahead of its opening to the public today. Residents are now able to book appointments to visit the site at www.kent.gov.uk/allingtonhwrc. To ensure maximum efficiency, the new HWRC has been designed to operate without interruption…
Booking to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) is to stay following a large response to the public consultation held last year. Susan Carey, Kent County Council’s (KCC) Cabinet Member for Environment, took the decision to keep the booking system following a report to the Environment & Transport Cabinet Committee on 18 January, where…
Building work on a new Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC) has officially begun. Kent County Council Cabinet Member for Environment Susan Carey put spade to soil on Monday (July 5) for the facility which will be built and operated by FCC Environment on the site on Laverstoke Road in Allington. The new HWRC has…
Satisfaction levels with Kent’s Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRC) have been found to be overwhelmingly high in a new survey. Nearly 9,000 people were asked about their experiences, with the results showing 95% were satisfied or quite satisfied with their visit and felt safe. More than 98% were also happy with the booking system.…
With Christmas just days away, staff at Tovil HWRC have once again created their own Christmas grotto. For the past four years, staff at the Burial Ground Lane site have been collecting discarded Christmas decorations to make their festive display, complete with trees and festive statues. Residents can continue to recycle their real and artificial…
The Leader of Kent County Council has called on everyone in Kent to stay strong and stick to government guidance as we move into another national lockdown. From Thursday (November 5) everyone must stay at home, leaving only for a limited set of reasons, and all ‘non-essential’ shops must close until December 2. England’s regional…
A safety scheme to resurface the Ashford Waste Transfer Site will start next month. Replacement of the concrete floor is needed because over the years many thousands of movements by heavy vehicles have worn the existing concrete surface away. The site will close on Tuesday, September 1 and reopen on Tuesday, September 22. KCC is…
A new Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC) with a re-use shop has been given the greenlight from KCC’s planning committee. On Wednesday (July 15) members of the committee unanimously approved the proposal by FCC Environment (UK) Ltd’s for the site on Laverstoke Road in Allington. The proposed HWRC would be a split-level facility with…
Kent’s residents have made full use of the new booking system for the Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs). Over 26,000 slots were booked for the first nine days of availability with new slots being released a day at a time to maintain the nine-day window. Over 11,000 visits were made to Kent’s 18 HWRCs in…
The majority of Kent County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) reopen today (Friday) for those who have booked a slot. Strict new rules are in place to not only protect staff but those using one of the county’s 18 HWRC sites as well. Since Wednesday, over 15,000 people have booked a slot either online…
Booking to use Kent County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centres starts tomorrow (Wednesday). People can book a slot either online at www.kent.gov.uk/hwrcbook or by phone on 03000 417373 from 11am on Wednesday. Depending on demand, you may be placed into a virtual queue. Government advice about essential visits to HWRCs is that journeys must only…