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Love Essex is the official website of the Essex Waste Partnership - working together to drive change and reduce our impact on the environment.

19 February 2025

Workplace Recycling changes from 31 March 2025

From 31 March 2025, workplaces with ten or more full-time employees have a legal duty to apply the waste hierarchy and separate food waste and recyclable material from general rubbish.

14 February 2025

Period pants: Empowering women and the planet

Kelly Newton, Founder of Nixi Body, tells us how period pants are changing women’s experiences of periods and reducing waste.

Large fly tip on country lane including rubble, green waste and children’s toys.

22 January 2025

Let’s SCRAP fly tipping!

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new campaign aimed to reduce the incidents, and impact, of fly tipping across the county.

A man wearing a yellow hi-vis vest loading a bed frame onto a van, via a ramp.

31 January 2025

Rehome your unwanted medical aids

We have recently partnered with MedEquip, so you can now drop off unwanted medical aids at Clacton Recycling Centre. The items are then cleaned, refurbished, tested and re-homed to help others.

Illustrated people sorting their waste and recycling into coloured containers in front of a house and trees.

27 January 2025

Exciting update for the Waste Strategy for Essex

All 13 councils in the Essex Waste Partnership have formally adopted the Waste Strategy for Essex.

Man putting black ban into a container at a recycling centre

20 January 2025

Essential maintenance works at Colchester Recycling Centre

Colchester Recycling Centre will have limited booking capacity due to essential surface repair work.

13 January 2025

Love Essex, go green, get reading!

Working with our colleagues in Essex Libraries, we’ve put together a collection of e-books and e-audiobooks for Essex residents to learn more about waste, recycling, and living a more sustainable lifestyle.

Left to right: two reusable period pads and a menstrual cup are laid on a green background accompanied by two flowers. A grey metal compost bin with food waste being thrown out on the bin into the air. Three reusable nappies, one yellow, one white and one pink are laid on a pink background with a white bottle.

10 January 2025

Take our Home Habits survey for a chance to win!

Tell us your views on cloth nappies, composting, and reusable period products and be in with a chance of winning one of five £20 Love2Shop vouchers.

An image of some shelving containing several tins of partly used household paint. A yellow graphic strip to the left of the shelves has the words ‘Free paint’ on it.

3 January 2025

Collect or donate free paint!

Essex County Council partners with Community RePaint to redistribute unwanted paint for residents.

13 December 2024

The Love Essex Fund returns

Do you run a project or have an idea to reduce waste and encourage reuse in Essex? Read more about our £500 micro-grants, as well as an inspiring success story.

Vicki Daws, founder of Refill Mill, standing outside the shop holding a large soap dispenser.

22 November 2024

Give refill a go! An interview with Refill Mill founder Vicki Daws

We interviewed the owner of Refill Mill in Ongar, whose business has saved an estimated 5,000 plastic bottles from landfill.

Seven recycling centre employees in their uniform, presented in a gallery layout on a black background.

21 November 2024

Staff abuse at recycling centres

Unfortunately, recycling centre employees across Essex have experienced an increase in incidents of abuse at work. We have created a video entitled 'We are real, we deserve respect' to remind everyone to treat each other with respect and kindness.

Two women in front of a green background and showing the camera some items they have recently freegled. The image reads “Reuse Rocks, #ChooseToReuse and National Reuse Day Friday 18 October”

18 October 2024

How will you #ChooseToReuse this October?

Show your support to Freegle by donating your unwanted items to celebrate the third anniversary of National Reuse Day!