Reigate & Banstead emerged from last Thursday’s Achievement in Recycling Awards with two awards, beating off competition from far larger organisations in its bid to have the recycling achievements of local residents recognised in these national awards.
The council won the Recycling Partnership Award, beating Tesco and Cardiff City Council and the Council’s Recycling Officer, Lizzy Jones, also won a Recycling Champion award.

Council is using Compost Awareness Week (2-10 May 2010) to encourage more Merstham residents to start recycling their kitchen, household and garden waste by composting at home. “Give it a grow”, the theme of this year’s Compost Awareness Week, aims to encourage us all to try something different, like having a go at home composting or extending the range of waste we compost to do our bit for the environment.

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council’s recycling team is hitting the road over the coming months to bring the “reduce, reuse and recycle” message out to residents to help them waste less, and hopefully save money at the same time.
The Recycling Road show will be in Merstham for the Quality Street Fair on the 3rd July.

Following the disruption to refuse and recycling collections caused by the recent bad weather over the last few, council staff are planning to have collections back to normal this week.
As from Monday 18 January the council will be resuming normal refuse, recycling and garden waste collections as well as the collection of Christmas trees.

Merstham collections missed yesterday due to the snow (Wed 13 January) will be collected today and the council will attempt to collect some of Tuesday’s missed collections as well.

Today (Wed 13th), due to the weather conditions all refuse and recycling collections have been suspended.

Council staff are continuing to work hard, in difficult icy conditions to clear the backlog of Refuse & Recycling that has built up. It is recognised that many Merstham residents still may not have had a collection since before Christmas.

Council staff are continuing to work hard, in difficult icy conditions to clear the backlog of Refuse & Recycling that has built up. Many residents have not had a collection since before Christmas. Today staff have focused their energies on the hilly and more difficult to reach parts of the borough where it has not been possible to collect for some time.
Staff will return tomorrow using the same approach to try and clear other roads which have not previously been collected, the Merstham area has been identified as an area of priority as it has not had a collection since before Christmas.Subject to weather collection staff will be carrying out collections on Saturday 9 January.

Due to the large amount of snow that has fallen in Merstham over night and more snow anticipated today (Wednesday 6th) there is likely to be disruption to refuse and recycling collections today. The councils advice is to leave your bin out if it is not collected and they will continue to attempt to collect it as soon as possible. So is best if the bins are left out.
I will post further updates here as I get them.

If like us this Christmas you have discovered a whole piles of unwanted or unused items in the loft or in the back of cupboards or if you have received a present you really didn’t want, but can’t bare to see them going into a landfill then there is an effective option through Reigate Freecycle®.

Due to the Christmas holidays the day your rubbish and recycling is collected may have change. Each household will get one rubbish and recycling collection over Christmas, Normal collections will re-start on Monday 4 January.