Waste Prevention
Welcome to our waste prevention page! We are a passionate about waste reduction and recycling.
Check out the video below from our recent Rethinking Rubbish Event.
Competition Time!
Win a Laptop! Enter our Up-cycling Competition and show off your skills
Send your completed entry from with details of your up-cycled creation to wasteprevention@gmail.com by 4th October 2025, and bring your creation (or portfolio if too large) to the free Greening Campaign showcase on Sat 11th Oct 2025, Jubilee Hall, Bishop's Waltham - see you there!
We have put together a series of maps and information to help you reduce waste and recycle as much as possible.
Terracycle Recycling
The following items can be dropped to the collection box on the front drive at:
Firwood, Victoria Road, Bishop’s Waltham SO32 1DJ.
Please leave items sorted into their programmes and in a named bag. If it looks similar but is not on the list, then I cannot accept it.
Please text 07985 414656 when a drop has been made.
They will then be taken to a Terracycle recycling point.
More info at: https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/
BISCUITS/CAKES/CRACKERS -Any Brand Biscuit wrappers, sweet not savoury e.g., penguins inside and outside wrappers or custard cream packs etc in any brand. Plastic cracker, cake, or rice cake wrappers.
PHILIPS DENTAL -Any plastic Manual Toothbrushes. Electric toothbrush heads. Dental floss sticks, nozzles and packaging.
BAKERY -Any brand bakery flexible wrappers and trays and Standard sliced bread bag.
PRINGLES - Pringle branded crisp tubes. No lids.
STAMPS - Stamps. New or used. UK or foreign.
CLEANING - Any Brand Plastic Air fresheners, cartridges, and packaging, including car air fresheners. No glass or metal. Lenor tumble dryer sheets. Flexible home cleaning wipes packets. Rigid home cleaning wipes tubs.Tinted fabric conditioner bottles only -not clear bottles. Fabric conditioner lids. Flexible laundry pods and capsules packaging.
FOREIGN COINS & NOTES
MILK BOTTLE LIDS - Standard Milk bottle lids only (clean without any paper attached)
BURTS BEES - Any brand Flexible metal or plastic tubes used for hand cream/body cream
Flexible beauty wipes packets.
Empty eyeshadow compacts, mascara tubes & wands, lipstick/lip-gloss tubes, lip balm tubes or lip/cheek highlighter or bronzer sticks.
MARIGOLDS– Marigold branded gloves and packaging.
RB HYGIENE - Flexible cleaning product refill packaging, Flexible home cleaning wipe packaging and freshener, Dishwasher cleaner outer packaging, Flexible plastic dishwashing salt bag, Fragrance twin pack plastic sleeves, Flexible stain remover powder packaging and Flexible dishwashing tablet packaging Outer plastic sleeves.
SISTEMA - All brands of (rigid) plastic food storage containers and lids and All brands of reusable plastic water bottles and caps.
BABYBEL – Babybel wax, nets and labels
CHEESE PACKAGING – Any brand cheese packaging (washed please)
Also I collect items for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance recycling programme - click here for more information.
