Housing home user guide

Green Sacks
If you have a green sack collection you can put out a maximum of five sacks for
collection at one time. They must be left open so our crews are able to view the
contents.
Please do not put food waste in these sacks - this should go in the kerbside caddy
you've been provided with. Please make sure all your food waste is contained in
a compostable bag.
Excess Garden Waste
If you have excess garden waste that you'd like to be collected, you can sign up to
the chargeable Extra Green Waste Collection Service.
Alternatively you can take your excess garden waste to one of the recycling centres.
Furniture and appliances Re-use
Instead of throwing usable unwanted furniture and household appliances away, a
number of charity shops sell donated good quality furniture alongside bric-a-brac,
books and clothing:
The British Heart Foundation for queries or to book a free collection visit
www.BHF.org.uk or call 0808 250 0130 - Before organising your collection please
check that:
All the goods are in good condition, clean and complete, and that they work
correctly
All upholstered furniture has a fire label attached. For sets, ie a three piece
suite, each individual item must have its own fire label.
The Community Furniture Project Ring Newbury to arrange to donate any good
quality surplus furniture, household goods, baby equipment or electrical items.
Larger items can be collected from your home by a van crew on weekdays. Tel:
Newbury 01635 43933.Collection is free of charge in West Berkshire.
Real Nappies - www.goreal.org.uk
Going real saves money for both parents and our
communities. For every year a baby is in nappies, he or
she will need nearly 2,000 nappy changes. With potty
training averaging at two and a half years, that is nearly
5,000 nappies per child!
At an average cost of 16p per disposable, between them
parents in England and Wales are spending approximately
half a billion pounds on disposable nappies every year.
Recent research by Go Real shows that parents can save anything from £150 to
over a £1000 over the lifetime of using nappies, depending on their choice of
nappies- those are huge savings for cash-strapped families. (And those savings
stack up even further when nappies are used on a second- and a third child...)
Better for the Environment....