Kent Community Recycling Centre
Friday 10 July and I’m in Hawkinge to join the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Kent Community Recycling Centre. This Community Interest Company was set up in 1989 to reclaim useful material from waste.
The Centre was recycling tins, glass,clothing, paper and plastic long before it was fashionable and still does today. Now that Shepway has a weekly kerbside collection of recyclables and Kent County Council runs a nearby waste disposal site you might think that there was no longer a role for Kent Community Recycling. But there is because Kent Community Recycling offers payment for the waste it receives as well as raising funds itself to support charity. So the Centre thrives with organisations and individuals bringing in their waste and buying the by products such as decorative glass chippings to use in the garden.
Today there are balloons, a band and a hog roast all and a general invitation to the community to join in the celebration of 20 years of saving the planet. It’s an event I’m very happy to join in to represent Shepway and show our support for the work of Mark Wyatt and his team. Here’s to the next 20 years.
Sheila with Councillor Susan Carey, Chairman of Shepway District Council
Kent Community Recycling has a website with information about what it recycles, its opening hours, its business waste recycling service and how its credit scheme works. kentcommunityrecycling.org.uk