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Forth Valley: Facilities
- New and Improved Forthbank Recycling Centre Opens
- New Home Composting Guide for Spring 2004
- Home Composters
- Clackmannanshire Facilities
- Falkirk Facilities
- Stirling Facilities
- Forth Valley Resource Efficiency Directory
New and Improved Forthbank Recycling Centre Opens
Councillor Billy Calder and pupils from Clackmannan Primary School officially opened the new and improved Forthbank Recycling Centre in Alloa on Friday the 7th May 2004. Clackmannanshire Council was awarded £325,000 from the Scottish Executive’s Strategic Waste Fund to complete the renovation.
The following materials can be recycled at the new centre: aluminium & steel cans, car batteries, cardboard, engine oil, garden waste, glass, metal, plastic bottles, textiles, and wood. Soil, rubble and horticultural material can also be dropped off at the centre.
New Home Composting Guide for Spring 2004
The Waste Aware Forth Valley home composting guide takes you right through the composting process from identifying the best place to put your bin to explaining the range of materials that can be composted.
The guide will be provided free with all discounted council home compost bins and can be viewed by opening this pdf file:
Alternatively you can request a free guide by calling:
Stirling Council: 0845 277 7000
Clackmannanshire Council: 0500 545 540
Action Recycle (Falkirk Council residents only please): 01324 826 826
Half Price home composters are available from Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Councils:
| WHO |
HOW |
WHERE |
| Clackmannanshire Council | Call Clackmannanshire Council on 0500 545 540 to order you discounted home compost bin. | Buy your Compost bin from: Glenochil nursery, Menstrie. |
| Falkirk Council | Buy your home compost bin from Action Recycle. | 27 Winchester Road, Denny FK6 6QE. Call 01324 826 826 for more information. |
| Stirling Council | Buy your home compost bin from any of the centres listed. Visit www.stirling.gov.uk/waste or call 0845 277 7000 for more information. |
Greenyards Garden Centre, Bannockburn. |
Please note that the price of the discounted home composter
is £13 for all three local authorities.
Stirling Council also offer Large 1-meter cubed wooden compost box (1000 litres) for £25.
A blue bag and blue box kerbside recycling service is available to most households in Clackmannanshire.
Residents can use their blue bag and blue box to recycle cans, glass, paper and textiles. The blue bag and box are emptied together every two weeks by Alloa Community Enterprises. Please click here for more details of this service.
To have a free blue bag and blue box delivered to your door call 0500 545 540 free of charge or email wasteservices@clacks.gov.uk.
Alloa Community Enterprises (ACE)
Founded in 1984, Alloa Community Enterprises was first formed as a furniture project. From the beginning, ACE has aimed to create employment, alleviate poverty and protect the environment for the benefit of the local community. ACE has since expanded and diversified into other areas, such as recycling glass, paper, cans, textiles and paint. However, the furniture Reuse project is still very much part of their activities. The project depends on donations of furniture from members of the public in both Stirling and Clackmannanshire. ACE collects beds, suites (with fire labels), wardrobes, chests of drawers and coffee tables. If you wish to donate furniture and you live in Stirling or Clackmannanshire, please contact Claire at ACE on 01259 723094. All goods are uplifted free of charge. Some of this furniture is sold at cut prices for those on low incomes through ACE’s shop in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. The rest of the donations are made into furniture starter packs for those previously homeless. This activity is run in partnership with Clackmannanshire Council's Housing Department. For general enquires please contact the main office on 01259 215090 or e-mail enquiries@recycleit.org.uk |
There are also a number of Recycling Centres and Points in the Clackmannanshire area. To find out where your nearest Recycling Centre or Point is located, please visit the Sort It tool.
Falkirk Council is currently introducing a new three bin kerbside recycling service across the Falkirk Council area, the first areas to be covered by the new service will be Larbert and Stenhousemuir. Blue bins will be provided to allow residents to recycle cans, paper and plastic bottles with the PET and HDPE symbols. Brown bins will be provided to allow residents to recycle their garden waste. Please click here for more details about this service or visit www.falkirk.gov.uk.
Glass cannot be recycled using the new recycling service. Glass Recycling Points have been provided across the Falkirk Council area - please visit the Sort It tool to find your nearest Recycling Centres and Points.
The Action recycle blue bag kerbside recycling service will continue to be available to all residents until they receive their new three bin service. For details about this system click here.
Residents in the Falkirk Council area can donate their good quality furniture, domestic white goods (e.g. cookers, fridges) and computer equipment to Grangemouth Enterprises Ltd. For more details please click here.
Stirling
Stirling Council's kerbside recycling service has recently
been expanded to cover around
25 000 households across the region. Further expansions are planned for
2004.
For more details of what you can recycle via the Stirling Kerbside Collection, please click here.
In addition to the kerbside recycling service, a number of Recycling Points and Centres are available across the Stirling Council area. To find out where your nearest Recycling Point or Centre is located, please visit the Sort It tool.
You can also recycle your printer and toner cartridges at Smart Cartridge (www.smart-cartridge.com) in Barnton St.
For more information about the expansion of the kerbside recycling service and other waste relate issues visit www.stirling.gov.uk/waste.
Alloa Community Enterprises (ACE)
Founded in 1984, Alloa Community Enterprises was first formed as a furniture project. From the beginning, ACE has aimed to create employment, alleviate poverty and protect the environment for the benefit of the local community. ACE has since expanded and diversified into other areas, such as recycling glass, paper, cans, textiles and paint. However, the furniture Reuse project is still very much part of their activities. The project depends on donations of furniture from members of the public in both Stirling and Clackmannanshire. ACE collects beds, suites (with fire labels), wardrobes, chests of drawers and coffee tables. If you wish to donate furniture and you live in Stirling or Clackmannanshire, please contact Claire at ACE on 01259 723094. All goods are uplifted free of charge. Some of this furniture is sold at cut prices for those on low incomes through ACE’s shop in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. The rest of the donations are made into furniture starter packs for those previously homeless. This activity is run in partnership with Clackmannanshire Council's Housing Department. For general enquires please contact the main office on 01259 215090 or e-mail enquiries@recycleit.org.uk |
If you have any queries, please email us, or call 01786 471 333.
