New litter recycling bin pilot

If you are out and about in the city centre this week, you might notice

some new additions to the street furniture – four specially designed litter-recycling bins.
 
 

The bins, located on St Andrews Street, Market Square and Kings Parade, mark the beginning of a pilot scheme to recycle litter in the city. If successful, the council [...]

Recycling point closures

Two recycling points in Cambridge have recently been closed; at Cowley Road Park & Ride site and the car park of The Ship public house in Kings Hedges.
 
Since the Park & Ride relocated to Milton, the Cowley Road site can no longer be accessed to use the recycling banks. The recycling point in the car [...]

Extra carton banks

Tetra Pak style cartons can now be recycled at the recycling point in Cherry Hinton Hall car park, as well as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, The Beehive Centre, Focus DIY and Waitrose.

Third battery recycling point in city

A THIRD battery recycling point has been opened in Cambridge – at Dee’s Budgens in Arbury.
This follows the success of recycling points at Waitrose in Trumpington, and at Cambridge City Council’s customer service centre in Regent Street.
Since the first bank was installed last year, about 130,000 batteries have been collected. They are taken away, sorted [...]

New city-centre battery recycling point

Cambridge City Council has installed a new battery recycling point in the Customer Service Centre at Mandela House, Regent Street.
 
All small household batteries can be taken to the special collection bin, including AA, cell, mobile phone and laptop batteries. The recycling point is the second of its kind in Cambridge; the other is in the [...]

Free compost at the Beehive Centre

To celebrate national Compost Awareness Week, Cambridge City Council is digging deep to give away free soil conditioner that residents have helped to make by recycling.

Recycling officers will be at the Beehive Centre car park on Thursday 8th May from 10am-2pm, shovelling compost made from green bin waste into sacks for residents to take away – all you need to do is bring your own sack.

Last call to recycle Christmas trees

If your Christmas tree is still languishing outside your back door with all its needles falling off, there’s still time to give it a new lease of life. You can take it to the car park at Cherry Hinton Hall for recycling into mulch until this Sunday January 20th.
 Alternatively, you can chop it up and [...]

When will the Christmas recycling fairy visit?

Make sure you don’t get caught out this Christmas when your bin collection day changes.

Love food, hate waste

A third of all the food we buy ends up being thrown away, and most of it isn’t just peelings or bones – it could have been eaten! Read on for tips on reducing food waste…

Recycle your Christmas tree

Don’t forget to recycle your Christmas tree this year. Real trees can be taken to Cherry Hinton Hall after Christmas until January 20, to be chipped and made into mulch for parks and allotments. Alternatively cut up your tree and put it in your Green Bin (make sure the lid closes!).