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Let your pets helps you recycle

Meet Chocolate Button, Patch and Rex - recyclers extraordinaire! This furry bunch have perfected the art of reducing waste - by eating it. And not only do the perfect pets happily dispose of unwanted vegetable matter from the kitchen but they also sleep on used newspaper and top up the compost bin with their droppings.

How to beat the fly-tippers

Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of waste. It can vary greatly in scale from a bin bag of rubbish to large quantities of waste dumped from trucks. Fly-tipped waste may be found anywhere, such as roadsides, in lay-bys or on private land.

Renee - recycling as a way of life

From cards to clothes, paper to plastic bags - if it can be saved and reused, 74 year-old Renee Vincett, from Swaffham, will find a way. Renee, who has recently been presented with a Norfolk Waste Partnership Award, quite rightly describers herself as a "recycler."

Diary of a student 'Recycler'

Hayley Rissmann (pictured left) has just come back from university with three times more stuff than she started out with! But as they say "one person's junk is another person's treasure". So Hayley plans to have a week of recycling and hopefully make a bit of money...

Trash for cash

Turn trash into cash - and raise funds for your non-profit making group. Norfolk County Council will currently pay £43.59 of recycling credits for each tonne of household waste that is collected by your organisation.

Food for thought

Award-winning Norfolk-based chef Chris Coubrough says it shouldn't be difficult to cook up tasty treats for the table without creating a lot of waste. Chris is passionate about reducing the contents of our bins.

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