Please recycle your Easter waste

Stratford District residents are being encouraged to recycle their chocolate egg boxes and packaging this Easter.

Although manufacturers have started to reduce the amount of packaging used, cardboard and silver foil from Easter eggs generates around 4,500 tonnes of waste in the UK each year, according to statistics from WRAP (Waste and Resource Action Programme).

Olly Scholefield, Stratford District Council's Streetscene Manager says: "We know that residents in Stratford District are doing a fantastic job at recycling and our rates are one of the best in the country, but there is still over one thousand tonnes of cardboard and over two hundred tonnes of foil going to landfill each year.  Easter is one of those times when we expect more waste to be generated and we want to make sure that everyone knows that every part of their egg box packaging can be recycled, including the foil as well as cardboard and plastic. They can do this quickly and simply by putting it all in their blue-lidded wheelie bin as part of their normal recycling collection service."

Householders are also reminded that there will be no changes to refuse and recycling collections over the Easter and May bank holiday weekends.