The ACE Waste group is increasing the range of items that can be recycled in Aylsham by offering collection points in the town for people to be able to bring items such as cosmetic packaging, Marigold rubber gloves, pens, toothbrushes, stamps, broken lunchboxes, plastic storage containers, reusable water bottles, spectacles, contact lenses, Babybel packaging and Pringles pots.
The collection points are in Aylsham library and St Michaels Parish churchyard in Aylsham outside the east entrance to the church (what3words ///lower.curtains.spans). The recycling can be left in the black wheelie bin with the ACE poster on it telling you all the information you need to know exactly what you can recycle.
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These items are then sorted by our team of volunteers and sent to Terracycle through their corporate sponsored free recycling programmes or to other charities already collecting these items. Best of all, this also raises funds for St Michaels Primary and Nursery school in Aylsham.
The items listed are part of the energy from waste stream in most residential household waste bins in the Aylsham area, meaning they can’t be recycled in your grey bin and have to go in your green kerbside bin – until now.
We are focusing on items that are regularly and often created by households that people currently cannot drop off anywhere locally at present. We are avoiding offering recycling for soft plastic packaging as this can now be recycled at the Coop and Tescos.
Michael Dolling from the ACE Waste Group says: “Many of us are concerned about the impact that the climate emergency has on us and our families now and in the future and feel powerless to do much about this. This, and other ACE projects, help us all to take steps to change things that are within our sphere of influence.”
