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Home / Tag: wastebusters

Tag: wastebusters

Plastic Myths Busted!

After getting tonnes of questions, our Recycling Coordinator Sam Taylor wrote a blog in the hope of clearing up some of the confusion around plastics… Aren’t all plastics recyclable? How do you make a plastic anyway? Why will you recycle a plastic bottle but not a yoghurt pot? Well, read on to find out the […]

Posted 16 February 2017 | Categories: One Planet Living, Waste and recycling | Tags: council, environment, materials, packaging, plastic, recycling, resin identification code system, waste, wastebusters, York

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Fungi Foray discovered a rarity

Despite the hot and dry summer, which delayed the start of the fungi season we were pleasantly …

Playing with apples and memories

Our 13th annual Autumn Fayre went very well despite high winds forcing us to cancel tree climbing …

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12 Nov 2018

We appreciate every effort to recycle, but this is costly for the sender and wasteful. If you'd rather use the post… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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