Somerset Waste Partnership

Fixy: love your stuff for longer

11th May 2022 0

Repair and reuse are about to get supercharged across Somerset with the launch of Fixy this week. Fixy will be helping bring repair and reuse of electricals and electronics to Somerset communities, spearheaded by a […]

Be a good egg this Easter and recycle more

13th April 2022 0

Be a good egg this Easter – let Recycle More take most of your chocolate egg packaging and check your changed collection days. The expanded Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) service mean almost all Easter egg […]

All change – summer hours at recycling sites from 1 April

29th March 2022 0

All of Somerset’s 16 recycling sites switch to their summer timetables from Friday 1 April. When open weekdays, they will continue to start at 9am but close an hour later, at 6pm. Year-round Saturday and […]

Pop-up shop bags first SWP green grant

10th March 2022 0

Schools across Somerset have less than three months to apply for the first ever Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) Eco-Schools grants. A pop-up recycled clothes “shop” at Abbas and Templecombe Primary School is the first project […]

The polls are open – name Somerset Waste Partnership’s van!

1st March 2022 0

The polls are now open in a vote to decide what Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) calls the county’s new mobile repair and reuse project. Around 80 suggestions were put forward in a great response from […]

Plan ahead for festive collections

15th December 2021 0

Somerset waste Partnership (SWP) is asking residents to think ahead this festive fortnight to make sure they do not miss any waste collections. Public holidays always mean a change to collection days over Christmas and […]

Be ready to reduce and recycle this festive season

6th December 2021 0

Know how to wrap responsibly? Ready to recycle your Pringles tubes? Clued-up on Christmas collection days? The answer to these and other Christmas conundrums can be found in a one-stop shop for festive waste management […]

Think outside the box and cut the card this Christmas

1st December 2021 0

Festive shoppers are asked to think outside the box this year as figures reveal the scale of Somerset’s the cardboard culture. The cardboard collected from the average Somerset home has increased by more than a […]

Get ahead of the carve this Halloween

26th October 2021 0

Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is urging residents to get ahead of the carve and help reduce scary amounts of waste this Halloween season. There are a whole host of ways to join in with Halloween […]

Recycle sites switch to winter hours on 1 October

22nd September 2021 0

Every one of Somerset’s 16 recycle sites will go over to their winter timetables from Friday 1 October, with weekday opening hours of 9am to 5pm while weekends remain 9am to 4pm. Summer hours – […]