Inside Salisbury: Singing and Recycling
Recycling Week: A call to residents to recycle even more items
by Annette J Beveridge
RECYCLE Week has started with a fun message about saving certain items from landfill but there is a serious message behind it.
Wiltshire Council has joined Recycle Now hoping residents will increase the items they recycle each fortnight. This includes Dee Dee the deodorant, Rey the plastic trigger spray, Yogi the yoghurt pot and the humble Hube - the toilet paper roll.
Life-sized characters have been produced to highlight the key message.
In the financial year 2023-2024, residents in the county recycled, reused or composted 43.7% of Wiltshire’s household waste. This is an almost 4% increase on the previous year.
Cabinet Member for Waste and Environment, Councillor Dominic Muns, said “To help us achieve our goal of recycling even more of Wiltshire’s waste, you can check our website to make sure you are recycling all of the items that can be recycled.
“We are delighted to be supporting the Recycle Week campaign as it highlights some of the common items placed in general waste which could have been recycled. This is a key element of our ongoing ‘Recycling: Let’s Sort It’ campaign. We will collect empty aerosols, yoghurt pots, toilet roll tubes, cleaning spray bottles and cans from your blue-lidded bin or bag. Glass bottles and jars should go in your black box.
He added: “I encourage residents to make the most of the wide variety of recycling services available in Wiltshire, to help us to ensure valuable materials can be recaptured, recycled and used again, reducing the need to extract oil to make plastic, and metal from the Earth.”
Senior Campaign Manager at Recycle Now, Craig Stephens, said: “We are delighted that Wiltshire Council is supporting Recycle Week. While a light-hearted campaign, recycling is essential to limit the impact of what we buy on the environment.
“Keeping these materials circulating means we can reduce emissions linked with our weekly shop. Most people are recycling, and the material we capture has a multitude of uses, so the next step is to ensure everyone captures everything they can. Every aerosol, every trigger spray bottle, every plastic pot, and toilet roll tube. Rescue – recycle!”
To double-check what can be recycled, go to www.recyclenow.com
The Sound of Music
A LOVE of singing drew 50 children to join in a music rehearsal at Salisbury Cathedral recently.
They met the current choristers and the Director of Music, David Halls, who led the rehearsal teaching the children the music that they would be singing for a special Evensong taking place that same evening.
A Christmas carol was also recorded ready to be sent to the parents as an e-card.
Salisbury Cathedral’s Music Officer, Hester Greatrix, would like to hear from parents with children who love to sing and who may wish to join the cathedral as a chorister.
Contact Hester here: h.greatrix@salcath.co.uk
Photo credit: Finnbarr Webster
