Broxtowe

NEWS & VIEWS - OCTOBER 2014

The Contents: Be part of the

Introduction Page 2 Recycling Generation

Environment Pages 3, 4, 5 & 6 General Waste

Housing Garden Waste Pages 7 and 8

Community Safety Recycling Pages 9 and 10

Glass Waste & Recycling 2015 CALENDAR Pages A, B, C & D

Jobs & Business Growth Pages 15 & 16

Bringing People Together Pages 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21

Money Matters Pages 22 & 23 WHY WASTE TIME . . . .

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The Vision for Broxtowe Borough Council PULLOUT Listening and responding to ensure the < Collection and delivery of efficient and effective services NEW Textile Kerbside 2015 CALENDAR See Centre Pages Environment Environment

Introduction How Is Your Town Centre Protecting and Enhancing the Environment Performing?

Broxtowe Council is committed to How is your nearest taking responsibility to protect and town centre performing? enhance the environment for its future Broxtowe residents, generations and in our Corporate Plan shoppers and business owners are being we have pledged that recycling and encouraged to get online composting levels in the borough will and have their say to help rise to 50% by 2016 and residual waste inform new initiatives to levels will fall to 455kgs per household Ruth Hyde OBE Milan Radulovic MBE regenerate Broxtowe town by 2016. Chief Executive Leader of the Council centres. Recycling levels as of the end of June The questionnaire is Mayor of the , Councillor Last year a number of residents said MBE is joined by Broxtowe Borough Council’s Grounds 2014 were 42.9%. A number of exciting available online on the Maintenance Team. new projects are helping to slowly push they liked to receive a refuse collection Council’s website at this figure upwards including red lidded calendar each year. We listened to what www.broxtowe.gov.uk/ Mown Over By The Success you said and have decided that the most bins for glass recycling and a new textile towncentresurvey and Celebrations were in full and Bramcote recycling scheme about to be introduced. cost effective way to do this is to include is quick and easy to fill in, the calendar as part of Broxtowe Matters. swing at Old Church Tower also using a series of drop down Park in July as Mayor of retained their awards. We know that we can’t achieve this You will find your new 2015 calendar boxes and point and click the Borough of Broxtowe, on the centre pages of this newsletter The Green Flag award target without your help and over the answers. Councillor Stan Heptinstall years residents have demonstrated their together with other exciting news about demonstrates a high The Town Centre MBE joined members of kerbside textile recycling, free glass bins standard of maintenance backing for this challenge by supporting the Council’s Grounds Management team are and cleanliness together our waste and recycling initiatives. and how to pay for your garden waste bin. Maintenance Team and keen to hear from as many with a commitment to residents, tradesmen, Friends of the park to mark The introduction of a payment for We will keep you up to date with any sustainable environmental retailers, business owners the 9th consecutive year garden waste was widely supported by changes to our waste collection service management. and shoppers from each it has been awarded the residents and it’s now very easy to pay – a good way of getting up to the minute of Beeston, Eastwood, prestigious Green Flag. For more information visit information is by following us on twitter for your garden waste bin online at www. Kimberley and Stapleford www.broxtowe.gov.uk/ @broxtowebc. If you forget what day Colliers Wood, broxtowe.gov.uk/gardenwasteform parks or www.youtube. and will be promoting the also retained its Green Flag We have been delighted with the take-up your bin will be collected it’s easy to com/broxtowebc to questionnaires across the for the 7th year running of the scheme so far. find out online by clicking on “when’s see a video of some of borough. and the borough’s two my collection” on the front page of our Broxtowe’s parks and Community Green Flag sites website and typing in your postcode. The questionnaire open spaces. Finally, if you need to report a missed bin, will run until Friday at Alexandrina Plantation / Sandy Lane Open Space, you can send a text message to 60075. 5th December. Broxtowe Matters is published twice a Start the message with ‘BROX MISSED’ year by Broxtowe Borough Council and and include your postcode and house For more information, Swap-a-Lock the Broxtowe Borough Partnership to keep number - i.e. ‘BROX MISSED NG9 1AB contact Broxtowe residents informed about its services and 32’. Borough Council on TravelRight and on travel and transport, the work it does in the borough. 0115 917 3446 or email Police including free timetables, It costs just 18.5p per copy to print and So thank you for your enthusiastic towncentres@broxtowe. recently teamed up to guides and maps. help reduce bike theft distribute Broxtowe Matters to more than participation in our recycling gov.uk TravelRight provides free by holding swap-a- 50,000 homes and businesses in the family and adult cycle initiatives. lock sessions across borough. 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2 Broxtowe MATTERS - October 2014 3 Memorial Unveiled To Commemorate WW1 Environment The Memorial Gardens of those who lost their lives at Road during World War 1. Recreation Ground, Environment Led by the UK charity Fields Eastwood were unveiled in Trust in partnership with as the first Fields In Trust The Royal British Legion, Win Vouchers with Centenary Field in the East the programme ensures in August at a that there will be a space to Work more than 5 miles away? Car sharing is widely used for commemoration service to remember those who gave different kinds of trips throughout the borough, but not a popular mark the centenary of the their lives during the conflict method when it comes to travelling to work. To find out if a start of the First World War. car-share could work for you, join www.nottinghamshare.com. and protect valuable green You never know, there may be someone else who does the A memorial stone was also space. TravelRight is part of the Sustainable Travel Collective Ltd, unveiled to mark the event same journey and you could share petrol costs! For more