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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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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.

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13 September 2024

Clear the air with correct asbestos disposal

Asbestos is hazardous waste that must not be disposed of via kerbside collection or at a recycling centre. Book a subsidised council collection for your household asbestos.

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30 August 2024

Embrace sustainability with Second Hand September

It’s estimated that each Essex home has about £1,200 worth of clothes lying forgotten or unworn. With 11 million items of clothing sent to landfill every week in the UK alone, that’s a lot of waste!

30 August 2024

Big compost bin sale this September

Get a compost bin for just £10 this September and reap the benefits for your garden and the environment!

Two recycling centre staff members carrying a large rigid plastic item at a recycling centre.

16 August 2024

Rigid plastic recycling scheme expanded to more recycling centres

We’re delighted to announce the expansion of our rigid plastic recycling scheme at recycling centres.

Illustrated people sorting their waste and recycling into various bins. in front of a house and trees

23 July 2024

Essex has a new waste strategy!

The Waste Strategy for Essex sets out how to reduce the impact on the environment from things we throw away.

Councillor Peter Schwier, Councillor Bob Massey and an employee from Letterbox Distribution pictured outside an Essex household holding the stickers, leaflets and compostable liners delivered to all eligible households in Essex for the Food Recycling Project.

22 July 2024

Essex residents move food waste from plate to purpose

Food recycling project rolls out to over 375,000 households in Essex and is already seeing positive results.

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1 July 2024

Plastic Free July

Every year, summer brings the global movement, Plastic Free July. Millions of people across the globe take part in doing their bit to reduce plastic pollution.

17 April 2024

Businesses invited to learn about the draft waste strategy

Businesses of all sizes are invited to lunch and to learn about how the draft waste strategy will affect them.