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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.

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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.

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.