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…
Residents are being urged to consider reusing before recycling items this Christmas. Kent County Council (KCC) will be using its social media channels in the period before and after Christmas to promote ways of reuse and recycling. District and borough councils are responsible for collecting your waste from your home and transporting it to KCC’s…
Now is the chance for residents and businesses to have their say on the updated Kent Minerals & Waste Local Plan. Kent County Council (KCC) is the planning authority for waste management and mineral development, which includes quarrying for sand, brickearth and ragstone. This is important for sustainable growth and the plan sets out how…
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…
Road sweepings collected in the county will now be processed and recycled in Kent. Kent County Council’s waste management team has awarded a contract to Thanet Waste Services Ltd to process and recycle waste that ends up on our streets and pavements. The waste will be treated at a site near Sandwich with 99% of…
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.…
The latest official Government figures for waste and recycling in England show just 1.5% of Kent’s rubbish goes to landfill. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report of waste and recycling statistics for 2019/20 found KCC disposed of 670,000 tonnes of household waste. Of that, 315,000 tonnes of waste was recycled and 345,000…
The 13 councils of Kent are working in partnership to tackle flytipping and waste crime. Flytipping is a crime with serious consequences and serious penalties. There should be no excuses for flytipping, with residents and businesses aware of their responsibilities when disposing of waste following last year’s campaign around illegal waste carriers. Flytipping is dealt…
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…