May 2024 news
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You could save up to £80 a month by reducing your food waste
40% of the contents of the average waste bin in West Sussex is food waste! This includes avoidable food waste such as, leftovers and packaged food!
Saving food from going to waste is not only good for the environment but can also save you money. Food that is thrown away is roughly the equivalent of £20 per month per person, or an average of £80 per month for a family of four based on a survey completed by WRAP.
Watch our video to find out more, or you can visit our website to find out how to reduce food waste at home. There is information on how to be a smart shopper, how to love your leftovers and how to keep food fresher for longer.
We’d love to hear your ideas on how you prevent food from going to waste at home. See our Facebook page and let us know in the comments.
The Big Fix returns to West Sussex!
This month we’re encouraging people to buy less and fix more with Recycle Devon’s Big Fix campaign. The Big Fix is designed to counteract a throwaway culture and promote repair and reuse.
A repair café is a free meeting place where people can bring things to be repaired by volunteers in their local community. This can include things such as clothes, furniture, electricals, bikes and toys.
In 2023 the national campaign saw a total of 83 repair cafés get involved and successfully fix 2,761 broken items.
Here in West Sussex, we want to support reuse and repair as much as we can and, with the amazing network of volunteer-run repair cafés across the county, residents are in good hands.
For information on locations of repair cafés in West Sussex visit our Big Fix web page.
May bank holidays
Don't miss your bin collection this month because of the bank holidays. Check with your local district or borough council to see if your bin days will be changing:
- Adur & Worthing Councils
- Arun District Council
- Chichester District Council
- Crawley Borough Council
- Horsham District Council
- Mid Sussex District Council
The opening hours for the Recycling Centres will remain unchanged over the bank holidays. Full opening hours can be found on our website.
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Waste prevention events
Throughout West Sussex, we're proud to be working alongside a team of passionate recycling and waste prevention volunteers and advisers. They attend public and private events to promote waste prevention, reuse and recycling, and are keen to answer questions on the county's recycling provision and waste prevention.
Alongside the public events below, we are attending numerous privately hosted talks and events for local community groups, schools and other organisations.
For more information on any of the listed events below, or if you would like our team to attend an event please email waste.prevention@westsussex.gov.uk.
May/June 2024 events
- Saturday 11 May 2024 (12 noon to 5.00pm) - Oving Scarecrow Day, Oving
- Saturday 18 May 2024 (11.00am to 4.00pm) - Waste prevention stand at STEM in the park - Crawley Memorial Gardens. Learn what happens to your recycling
- Saturday 25 May 2024 (10.00am to 5.00pm) - Waste prevention stand and activities at Reclaim festival, Coronation Green, Shoreham
- Sunday 26 May 2024 (10.00am to 5.00pm) - Waste prevention stand and activities at Reclaim festival, Coronation Green, Shoreham
- Monday 27 May 2024 (10.00am to 5.00pm) - Waste prevention stand and activities at Reclaim festival, Coronation Green, Shoreham
- Saturday 1 June 2024 (10.00am to 3.30pm) - Waste prevention stand at East Preston Community Market, Sea Road
- Saturday 2 June (1.30pm to 4.00pm) - Waste prevention stand at Spring into Summer event, Muster Green, Haywards Heath
- Sunday 9 June (10.30am to 3.30pm) - Waste prevention stand at Lancing Green Dreams, Lancing Beach Green.
- Tuesday 11 June (12 noon to 2.30pm) - Big Green Week clothes swap, Committee room 1, County Hall, Chichester
- Friday 14 June (2.00pm to 4.00pm) - Chichester Community Development Trust clothes swap, Graylingwell Chapel, Chichester
- Sunday 23 June (11.00am to 3.00pm) - Waste prevention stand at Burgess Hill Summer Fayre, St Johns Park, Burgess Hill
- Friday 28 June (10.00am to 6.00pm) - Waste prevention information at Reach Out's Face to Face Community Engagement Roadshow, County Mall Shopping Centre, Crawley
- Saturday 29 June (10.00am to 6.00pm) - Waste prevention information at Reach Out's Face to Face Community Engagement Roadshow, County Mall Shopping Centre, Crawley
- Saturday 29 June (11.00am to 3.00pm) - Waste prevention stand at St Peters Church Festival, St Peters Church, Chichester.