Epiphany or twelfth night is the traditional time to take down the decorations. Many people believe that that leaving your decorations up past the twelfth night brings bad luck.
Christmas trees, along with any other green garden waste, can be recycled at the HWRCs throughout the year. However, until 31st January, for every 50 tonnes of Christmas trees and green waste received at the HWRCs, Veolia is donating £100 to The Royal British Legion the Chair of Nottinghamshire County Council’s chosen charity.
Keith Walker Chair of Nottinghamshire County Council says ‘The Royal British Legion is an excellent charity and we hope to raise as much money as possible for our veterans and their families. I ask all residents to recycle their tree to help make a real difference.’
To find your nearest HWRC and for opening times, click here.
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Since 2006 Veolia Environmental Services, via a dedicated subsidiary, Veolia Environmental Services Nottinghamshire Ltd; has been helping Nottinghamshire County Council to manage household waste created in the County. Over the life of the 26 year PFI waste management contract Veolia ES Nottinghamshire will help to increase recycling to 52% by 2020 / 21 and to significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
To date, Veolia ES Nottinghamshire has:
- Provided waste awareness and education initiatives across the County
- Provided a Materials Recovery Facility in Mansfield, which has the capacity to handle around 85,000 tonnes per year of mixed dry recyclables from Nottinghamshire households. This includes paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and metal tins / cans
- Established a new, split-level Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) to serve Worksop
- Taken over the management of some of the County’s Household Waste Recycling Centres, establishing a unified approach and increasing standards at the sites to help maximise recycling levels achieved
- Refurbished several of the HWRCs to make them more modern and user-friendly
- Used existing, planned, constructed and licensed landfill sites to take residual waste from Nottinghamshire households
In the future, Veolia ES Nottinghamshire plans to:
- Create a network of new transfer stations to serve Newark and Worksop
- Utilise existing sites at Giltbrook and south Nottingham to receive and handle waste and recyclables from Borough and District council collections
- Continue our long-term refurbishment programme of the HWRCs
- Construct an 180,000 tonne per year Energy Recovery Facility in the Mansfield / Ashfield area to convert residual waste into power. The 15MW of energy recovered from the energy recovery process would be the equivalent of providing power to around 22,000 homes
- Provide a new composting facility in central Nottinghamshire and to utilise other existing composting sites, to handle a total of 100,000 tonnes of green waste per year
- Continue providing waste awareness and education initiatives across the County, in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council
Veolia Environmental Services, part of the Veolia Environnement Group, is the UK’s leading waste management company. With a sizeable presence throughout the UK, mainland Europe and the world, Veolia Environmental Services employs 85,600 people worldwide, servicing more than 73 million customers in 33 countries. (Source: Human resources data 2009)
Veolia Environmental Services is the only global provider of a full range of services for handling hazardous and non-hazardous solid and liquid waste. It provides waste management and logistics services as well as materials recovery and recycling. Veolia Environmental Services generated revenue of €9.05 billion in 2009.
Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE and NYSE: VE) is the worldwide reference in environmental services. The company has operations all around the world and provides tailored solutions to meet the needs of municipal and industrial customers in four complementary segments: water management, waste management, energy management and freight and passenger transportation. Veolia Environnement recorded revenue of €34.5 billion in 2009.
Further information can be obtained by visiting the websites:
www.veolia.co.uk
www.veolia.com
www.veolia.co.uk/nottinghamshire
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