Our Community Energy group SHARE has joined Terracycle, recycling program, to reduce the amount of plastics that can’t be recycled kerbside. To date we have raised £5000 for KicksCount charity who aim to reduce UK stillbirths. Follow us on FaceBook for regular updates > www.facebook.com/groups/recycling.for.charity
MUST READ GUIDE: Recycling guideA17
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December CollectionsTues. 7th Saltash Deli Bazaar 30 Fore Street drop off 9 – 4
Tues. 7th L’Son TESCO car park 10 :15 – 11:15am then onto S. Petherwin by the school at 11:30am & Coads Green phone box 12 noon
Wed. 8th St Dominick Shop 9:45 – 10am, then Callington B&M car park 10:15- 10:45am then onto TVAONB 11 – 11:45 then back to box up if you can help 12:10 – 1pm
Fri. 10th Tavistock Kings car park Pixon lane 10:30 – 11:30am
Sat 11th Liskeard Cattle Market 10 – 12noon & Pensilva St John church 12:22 – 12:30
Thur. 16th Plymouth Eva’s World Mayflower St 9 – 3pm
Date TBC St Germans Eliot Arms car park with Freddie
Plus we have drop off points around the area. Just ask and I’ll send directions.
Sun. 19th Parish Hall Golberdon TOY SWAP 10:30 – 2:30pm PL17 7ND
Have a special recycling HOLIDAY SEASON.
All sweet tubs & plastic milk bottle tops need to be dropped off by the end of FEBRUARY.Plus we have drop off points around the area. Just ask and I’ll send directions. -
- Drop sorted items anytime at Golberdon, Liskeard, Tremar, Upton Cross, North Hill, Stoke Climsland, Kelly Bray. These are monitored by our volunteers, if you would like to help this way please let us know.
- We also have volunteers calling at cafes & caterers, collecting bread bags, cheese packets and more, if you know a business you can help them reduce their waste and help us ! and we’ll give them a shout out. THANK YOU.
Updates: The main pet food programme closed on Nov 1st, we can only accept LILY KITCHEN brand pet food bags ..THANK YOU all for your massive support.
Always Open:
Golberdon bins are at the entrance to Green Meadows. PL17 7LT
North Hill bin is opposite the village hall
Upton Cross bin is in the parish hall car park
Tremar inside Horizon Farm shop
Coads Green Old Phone Box
Stoke Climsland Old School car park recycling shed
Kelly Bray, in Tamar Valley country store at Beeching Park, Station Rd
Liskeard, Launceston, Saltash, St Germans & Tavistock have drop off points, contact me for directions. and Bude.
Email me at iamalihumphreys@yahoo.com or call 07305 044049 if you need to make arrangements to drop off.
Don’t come if you are feeling unwell, wear a mask, stay away from each other, use your own hand gel… STAY SAFE and keep others safe.
This is the way it needs to be sorted into programmes, to limit the volunteers coming into contact with your items. Thank you, we appreciate your support.
If you are on FB please join our group for updates and ask questions or you can email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk
Full list of items that you can recycle:
- Medicine Blister Packs for Superdrug
- all biscuits & crackers & cake wrappers, no trays
- triggers & pumps off bottles and latex style gloves
- baby food pouches and lids & snack wrappers
- plastic air fresheners and packaging
- flexible packets from dishwasher tablets, salts and stain remover
- Marigold branded gloves
- used toothbrushes, electric heads, interdental brushes, toothpaste tubes and dental floss packaging, floss sticks/harps.
- 6 pack can ring carriers
- Ferrero Rocher boxes & trays
- CD’s & DVD’s and their cases
- Aqua water filters
- Taylors of Harrogate coffee bags and sachets. Taylors brand only.
Text 07305 044049 or email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk for any questions.
The manufacturers that sponsor the programmes dictate what can be accepted.
Remember its not the packet it’s what was in the packet that is important.
- all sweets & chocolate wrappers no foil or paper
- all crisp & snacks, pringles, popcorn, pretzels & peanut packets
- Lily’s Kitchen pet food bags
- all personal care products in soft plastic tubes, inc. all plastics in hair dye kits and disposable gloves & Marigolds
- Lip sticks, balm & lip gloss, mascara & eye shadow compacts
- Cheese packets, nets, labels & Babybel wax
- Warburton’s waxy bread bags.
- All bread bags and bakery packaging from rolls, baps, bagels, crumpets, wraps, pittas, thins, croissants, brioche…
- Pens, highlighters, markers, felt tips, correction fluid pots & fist size Inkjet print cartridges.
- unwanted Mobile phones and their cases, cameras, gadgets, postage stamps, foreign money for hill ponies.
- PLASTIC Sweet tubs & milk bottle tops for Dartmoor Zoo & MIND B4 Feb 22th 2022
ALL items must be sorted into the different programmes, not mixed. We cannot sort your items.
If you are closer to Redruth, check out https://www.upcyclekernow.org/
PLUS Old mobile phones, cameras, gadgets, used stamps and unwanted jewellery can also be recycled for the Hill Pony Resources charity, who are supporting ponies here on our doorstep https://hillponyresources.weebly.com/
Cornwall Council confirm our recycling is not being dumped in landfill anywhere. A small percentage is reprocessed in Europe, legally, responsibly and ethically.
In August 2019 SHARE visited the Materials Recycling Facility(MRF), and the Energy Recovery Centre (CERC) Bodmin, to see the recycling and incinerator converting waste into electricity.