At the risk of dragging this blog into the bin… I was happy to be able to ring up to talk to Janet Kipling on BBC Radio Devon on Friday, to talk about how well the people of East Devon are doing at recycling. My colleague Geoff was on just before me, talking about the […]

All of who have been stuck in stationary traffic jams in Station Road of a morning will know that the constant 2 way HGV circulation is not helping what was already a bit of a bottle-neck around the parish. The ford floods regularly, as it is designed to, but add to that the beautiful Victorian […]

You will see that you have a blue food caddy and its kitchen friend, the small green caddy, for kitchen scraps. This is actually one of the most exciting parts of the whole process (even possibly more exciting than the Materials Recycling Facility!). The contents of your food caddy- food scraps, tea bags, even cooked […]

Recently a new service was brought in- a garden waste recycling service. We live in a fairly rural area, and many people in the countryside have their own compost heaps or chickens and dogs to eat their scraps, but there a few towns where this isn’t as common. So East Devon brought in an optional […]

Even though older wheelie bins are labelled “landfill waste”, none of our wheelie bin waste in East Devon now goes into a hole in the ground. We still has to pay money to maintain landfill sites, but that is because even after they are closed, landfill sites need very careful management for decades, to avoid […]

As you may already know, in East Devon district area, a very large district of 140,000 people, we have two main rubbish collections schedules. Recyclables are taken every week, and what’s left over, “residual waste” that is put into the wheelie bins (inaccurately marked “landfill waste”- see a later post), goes every 3 weeks. Much […]

The box used to receive all the recycling, but since the materials recycling facility was installed, and plastics have been sorted and recycled, we’ve had to do things a bit differently. Now all that goes in the box is glass, and card and paper. If you watch the crews at the kerbside, you’ll see they […]

The people of East Devon are doing very well at recycling. In a bit over a year, we’ve gone from among the worst areas in Britain for recycling to being in the top ten, which is amazing. How has this been done? By starting a plastics recycling scheme and a garden waste collection. Both of […]

  If you’ve just moved into or you already live in a house in East Devon, you’ll have a green recycling bag. The contents of this bag have a very special fate. Everything in this bag is taken to a huge machine called a “Materials Recycling Facility” (MRF) on the Greendale industrial estate near Woodbury. […]

The CEO of Gigaclear has issued an apology for delays to the rollout of fibre broadband under the Connecting Devon and Somerset scheme. His press release explains how they plan to tackle the delays.