- Wiltshire Council will continue to provide an efficient recycling service and, regarding the Environmental bill, will review for expanding the range of recyclable items to include separated food waste and maximising efficiency. Find out more at: Household Waste Management Strategy 2017-2027
- Wiltshire Council is working with its main provider of household recycling centre services, FCC Environment, to expand the reuse opportunities available to Wiltshire residents at these sites. All eight household recycling centres operated by FCC now provide separate labelled “walk-in” containers where residents and site staff can store good-quality items suitable for reuse or refurbishment, such as furniture. Between August 2022 and January 2023, more than 58 tonnes of reusable items were collected at household recycling sites, saving 23 tonnes of CO2e compared with sending this waste to landfill.
- The introduction of a new collections rounds for household residual waste has resulted in a more energy efficient service and less emissions – a review will take place later in 2022 on the efficiency of garden waste rounds.
- The council and its waste contractor have participated in demonstrations and trials of electric waste collection vehicles to inform future service design.
- Diverting sorted black bag waste collected at the household recycling centres (HRCs) to an energy from waste facility is estimated to have the potential to save more than 10,500 tonnes of CO2e per annum. Based on this and other data, the council is developing proposals to reduce the amount of HRC waste that is sent to landfill.
- A paint re-use trial is taking place at the Amesbury and Salisbury HRCs, which will help the council avoid the expensive treatment costs that disposing of it can incur. It is intended to introduce this scheme at other sites.
- 8% of the material collected for recycling, reuse and composting by Wiltshire Council was managed within the UK, reducing the ‘waste miles’ travelled
- The council diverted 80.9% of the waste it managed from landfill (2021/22).
- Subsidised by the council, between August 2021 and June 2022, 749 Green Johanna composting units were purchased by Wiltshire residents – estimated to have collectively diverted over 187 tonnes of food and garden waste from the residual household waste bins, which saves carbon emissions from collection and treatment.
- A pop-up reuse shop in Devizes prevented 2.1 tonnes of waste from going to landfill by selling items collected from recycling centres such as bikes, tools and toys.
- As of 1st May 2023 more than 15 tonnes of batteries collected through the new kerbside collection scheme.
- A leisure items recycling scheme has launched at four centres which allows usually discarded items to be eventually recycled and used again.
- In December 2021, public recycling bins were installed in the High Street and Springfield campus. This will be rolled out into other public areas in Corsham in the near future.
- Corsham Town Council supports and delivers services for the Corsham recycling hub run by Corsham Climate Action.
- Corsham Town Council’s Environmental Policy ensures that a life cycle analysis of products is carried out before purchasing to achieve closed-loop recycling wherever possible.
- Corsham Town Council is working to eliminate single use plastic from all town council operations and is working towards achieving Plastic Free Town Status for 2023.
- In December 2022 Corsham Town Council implemented a Sustainable Investment and Procurement Policy to ensure that all purchases made by the town council are carried out as sustainably as possible to minimise waste, increase the use of recycled materials and close the loop in the supply chain .
- Box Parish Council is currently working on a ‘User Policy’ for hirers of the Pavilion and Rec to comply with Environmental objectives and responsibilities. to ensure these spaces are used as sustainably as possible.
- Box Parish Council is researching the possibility of increased recycling initiatives, including glass recycling facilities on the Recreation Ground, and temporary recycling facilities to be compulsory for any events taking place. Box Parish Council will use the Recycling Hub in Corsham as a case study to learn from and adopt in Box.
- Parish Council has introduced recycling of blister backs. Parishioners have been invited to comment on what they wish to recycle, and have been asked to help sort recyclables. So far there has been limited interest in this.
- Individuals can use the Corsham Recycling Hub to recycle a large proportion of their household waste. Corsham Recycling Hub Zero Waste – Corsham Climate Action directory allows residents to find out where they can recycle lots of different products and materials around Corsham.
- Compost food waste at home by making a compost pile in your garden. See Kew Royal Botanical Garden’s information on making compost mix at: Make Your Own Compost
- Food waste app ‘Too Good to Go’ is helping to tackle food waste produced by restaurants, pubs, cafes, bakeries by selling any food leftover at a much cheaper price which can be collected by app users, (a bit like deliveroo but for leftover food)! While its services are slightly more limited in Corsham, this app can also be used in surrounding areas such as Bath. You can also spread to word and share this app to any friends and family living in larger town or cities!
- Olio is another app helping to tackle food waste which also includes households e.g. if you grow veg and have surplus you can put it on the app for other users to collect and make use of.
- Get creative with your leftover food. BBC Goodfood has a page devoted for leftover food recipes.
- For more information for reducing food waste see Which’s tips for reducing food waste at home.
- In 2021, Corsham Climate Action launched the Corsham Recycling Hub to extend and improve recycling facilities in Corsham. The group is now looking to develop a commercial recycling project in conjunction with Corsham Town Council.
- Corsham Climate Action runs active litter picking projects across community area as part of general waste reduction/recycling work.
- In 2019, the group launched the Plastic Waste Free Corsham initiative which included the ‘Refill’ project.
- Corsham Climate Action has also produced a plastic waste free directory. For more information see: Zero Waste – Corsham Climate Action
