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9 April 2025

Meet the Love Essex Fund winners!

This funding round, we received a record 105 applications for the Love Essex Fund. Read more about the successful applicants here.

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31 March 2025

Make space, not waste thanks to our reuse directory

Tempted by a spring clean this month? Take part in the “Make Space, Not Waste” campaign and donate your unwanted items of furniture to your local reuse organisation.

17 March 2025

Recycling centre recap!

Catch up on all news you may have missed about recycling centres in Essex, including new services and site improvements.

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15 April 2025

Celebrate Reusable Nappy Week 2025

We’re celebrating Reusable Nappy Week 2025. Learn how to get started with cloth nappies in Essex and how to claim a £30 refund for any purchase of cloth nappies over £30.

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1 April 2025

New charity donation point at Clacton Recycling Centre

From Tuesday 1 April 2025 residents can donate their reusable items to charity at Clacton Recycling Centre.

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10 March 2025

Food Waste Action Week 2025

To celebrate Food Waste Action Week (17 to 23 March), we are giving away a selection of handy tools to help a lucky winner reduce their food waste.

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3 March 2025

Repair Week 2025 - Celebrating resident repairers!

We’re putting a spotlight on the creative ways residents in Essex can prevent waste and save money by repairing.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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20 January 2025

Essential maintenance works at Colchester Recycling Centre

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