All waste services are 
back on their usual schedules after recovering from serious disruptions and widespread delays over Christmas and New Year, Somerset Waste Partnership has announced. Household collections, including clinical, assisted and paid-for garden waste pick-ups, are now on their standard timetables throughout Somerset, while all 16 recycling sites are open as usual. Full story: Read more
Grand Jumble Sale / Food Collection Event: 16th January, Birchfield Community Centre, Yeovil
We would like to welcome anyone who would like to donate, take part, or just attend the event on 16th January at Birchfield Community Centre, Yeovil, BA21 5RL. All proceeds to go the local foodbank, The Lord’s Larder. They have helped 4175 people in the last year who have suffered hardship through benefit cuts / delays, sanctions and zero hour contracts, it is these very issues that our Unite Community Group have protested against in town and held public meetings raising awareness of these serious problems, do please come along and join the fun. Donations and offers of help please contact us on (text 0789 686 4925) on landline after 1pm only please 01935 823121 or email david.osborne@unitetheunion.
Waste trials move on to ‘thin film’ plastic
A new waste trial has been underway to see whether Somerset might be able to recycle “thin film” plastic in future. A few hundred households in Taunton Deane were included in this six-week test, funded by the government-backed recycling charity WRAP. No other homes were involved. The thin film collected with kerbside recycling included the plastic used for carrier bags, multipacks of food or toilet rolls, bread or cereal bags, frozen foods, or to protect dry cleaning. Full story: Read more