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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.

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 at Witham Recycling Centre!

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

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 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!

15 October 2024

Essex business woman reduces landfill waste with game-changing reusable period products

An Essex business woman has saved a predicted 6+ million disposable period products from reaching landfill sites across the county.

Green background with recyclable items with panicked faces on them being thrown into a general rubbish bin. This next to the text “Rescue Me! Recycle. Find out what else you can recycle at recyclenow.com”.

14 October 2024

Come to the rescue this Recycle Week

Find out how we are supporting Recycle Week 2024

Overhead view of food caddy with banana peel on top.

8 October 2024

More households to receive help with recycling food

We are working in partnership with three councils to increase food recycling rates.

A person adding food waste to a black compost bin

7 October 2024

Complete our free online composting course and win prizes!

Residents that complete the free online Garden Organic course before 20 November can enter a prize draw to win one of two £50 RHS vouchers!

Two large, grey containers each with a rectangular sign above them. The white sign on the left says, “Recycle with Podback, The Pod Recycling Service: Aluminium Coffee Pods”. The turquoise sign on the right says, “Recycle with Podback, The Pod Recycling Service: Plastic Coffee Pods”.

27 September 2024

Essex County Council has partnered with Podback

You can now recycle your used aluminium and plastic coffee pods at recycling centres across Essex.