These pages show how we can improve even further. Here you can find links for the 3Rs below, links to home composting, or useful contacts, even FAQs. ______________________________________

Maldon has improved dramatically over the last five years due to more material collected, the garden waste service and people using the recycling collection service more and more.

But how can we push waste down and recycling up even further?

Check out the 3Rs below  - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - for some ideas to improve our environment even further.

Reduce           Reducing waste is most environmentally-friendly options compared with reuse and recycling. It requires no energy, uses no resources, creates no waste and even saves money. Click on the link to find out more.

Reuse      After reducing waste and buying only things you need reuse is the next step. Although many will view recycling on par with reuse there is no energy involved with reuse apart from finding out who could make good use of it.  Want to know more? For more information, see our Reuse page.

Recycle          Recycling is the final part to the waste hierarchy. After reducing and reusing recycling is the next step to help the environment. Recycling conserves resources, provides thousands of jobs and allows recyclable material to be used hundreds of times, also saving energy. And it is easy in Maldon with four materials collected at kerbside which includes tins, cans, card, paper, glass and yellow pages. Click here link for information about recycling, buying recycled products and learning about where your recycling goes. Want to know more about home composting? Click here.

The council provides a kerbside collection service and Civic Amenity sites, there are plenty of charity shops, boot sales, and websites to get things for free. There are even new environmental events to get people involved with improving there own environment.

Maldon takes pride in its environment and has proved to be a well-performing district in terms of recycling and the amount of waste to landfill especially compared with other areas. Now that recycling targets are set even higher we have all the more reason to become more sustainable, less reliant on landfill and improve the recycling rate even further.