With business booming in its Gandy Street shop, The Recycled Candle Company is putting out a call for even more used candles.
As the UK’s only candle recycling business, The Recycled Candle Company melts down old candles and uses the wax to make new ones, The process means that old candles don’t become part of landfill, in line with current thinking that it is far better to reuse materials wherever possible.
Richard Hills-Ingyon, who founded the company with Sargon Latchin said: “We’re eager to talk to anyone who uses candles in large quantities and currently puts them in...
Further information for the residents of Woodbury about a trial to collect cardboard in an additional recycling bag will be sent out later this month.
From March 1, around 850 households in the village will be asked to collect their cardboard in a white foldaway collection bag instead of their green recycling box and have it collected from the kerbside with their other recycling containers on their usual recycling collection day.
Every household will receive a letter from East Devon District Council’s recycling team with more information about the trial, and when their new...
Hospiscare vans and volunteers were out in force last weekend collecting over 500 Christmas Trees across the city.
Exeter residents were able to have their tree collected in exchange for a donation and the initiative raised over £5,000 for the local charity that cares for people who have been given a terminal diagnosis.
Louise Beeken, Head of Fundraising said: “It costs £21,000 a day to run Hospiscare services, caring for people at the end of their life in their homes or at the hospice. We raise this through the generous donations and gifts in wills of the local community....
East Devon District Council has further demonstrated its commitment to the environment through its collection boxes for the recycling of light bulbs.
It will be working alongside Recolight – a Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment compliance scheme for the lighting industry - and town and parish councils, to help residents recycle their low-energy bulbs.
The Collection Boxes, where residents can recycle their lightbulbs, can be found at various locations across East Devon including the reception areas of the District Council offices in Sidmouth, the town councils of...
The residents of Woodbury will be trialling an additional recycling bag for the collection of cardboard from March.
Around 850 households in the village will be asked to collect their cardboard in a white foldaway collection bag instead of their green box and put the bag out at the kerbside with their other recycling containers on their usual recycling collection day.
Each household will receive a letter from East Devon District Council’s recycling team with more information about the delivery of the bags and a start date for the trial.
Christmas and the New Year is a time when you can make the most of East Devon’s improved recycling service and recycle as much of your household waste as possible to enable us to re-use our valuable resources.
East Devon residents are keen recyclers and have had an excellent year as they now recycle 57% of their household waste.
During the festive season – and all year round - please help to collect as many valuable materials as possible by recycling your plastic bottles, tubs, pots and trays, food tins and drinks cans, foil trays and aerosols, food and drink cartons (...
Following the fire that devastated Devon Contract Waste ’s HQ in March 2017, the company is gearing up for the next phase of its growth with the development of a new HQ. This month, work begins on the company’s new 1,300m2 headquarters on Marsh Barton Industrial Estate in Exeter. Approved by Devon County Council officers in September, the new premises will be built to an improved, sustainable design to house new facilities and achieve an internationally-recognised BREEAM sustainability rating of Excellent.
Scheduled to complete in the company’s 30th anniversary year in 2019, Devon...
Metal matters and it can be endlessly recycled in to new items from cars to kettles – that’s the message that children from two East Devon primary schools have been learning over the last few weeks as part of a district-wide campaign asking residents to recycle more metal.
East Devon District Council and its partners SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, are calling on households to recycle more of their drinks cans, food tins, deodorant cans, aluminium food trays, foil and metal jar and bottle lids in their green recycling sacks which are collected every week from the kerbside.
East Devon’s award-winning recycling residents are being invited to step up to the challenge and recycle more cans and tins every week so the metal can be transformed into something new.
As part of national Recycle Week (September 24-30), the district council and its partners SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, are taking part in a campaign calling on residents to recycle more of their drinks cans, food tins, deodorant cans, aluminium food trays, foil and metal jar and bottle lids in their green recycling sacks which are collected every week from the kerbside.
A staggering amount of litter was collected in just one hour on Exeter’s Sowton Industrial Estate last Friday in a joint litter-pick by the Devon branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and Devon Norse.
Twenty people took part in the clean up in the area around Bittern Road, where Devon Norse is based. Members of CPRE Devon joined company employees and provided them with the necessary gear: litter-picking sticks, high vis jackets, gloves and bags.
The discarded frame of a child’s pushchair, a tyre, and an empty butane bottle were among the items collected, along...
