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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.
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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.
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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."
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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...
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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.
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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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