Oxfordshire offers new ways to repair and reuse small electrical items

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Oxfordshire County Council is to launch a new trial service to residents with a way to ensure their unwanted small electrical items can be repaired and reused, reducing what the county would otherwise send to waste. There are already many ways to recycle small electrical items that are beyond repair either at the kerbside or a recycling centre. Funded by Valpak, the council is trialling drop off points for unwanted small electrical items that are still in good condition at a number of participating Oxfordshire libraries. The trial will run at Banbury, Bicester, Kidlington, Witney, Carterton, Oxfordshire County Library, Headington, Cowley, Littlemore & Blackbird Leys libraries. Once goods have been dropped off, the items will be collected by Bicester Green or Orinoco – two local charities who help reuse and recycle waste – where they will be tested. Minor repairs will be made by volunteers and the items will then be sold on to benefit the charities. The drop off point is for small...
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Seven recycling centres set to close for Spring clean in March and April

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This March and April, seven of Oxfordshire County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centres will be closing for two days to carry out a deep clean and essential maintenance at the sites. The work forms part of the council’s planned approach to maintenance, and is designed to keep sites safe, looking clean and fresh and helping improve the customer experience when using these important environmental facilities. Only one site will be closed at any one time and all other sites will be open on those days. Residents are asked to plan ahead for these closures, ideally holding on to your waste until the site reopens or if that is not possible visiting one of the neighbouring sites. Site closure dates: Alkerton 3rd & 4th March 2020Redbridge 10th & 11th March 2020Ardley 17th & 18th March 2020Dix Pit 24th & 25th March 2020Oakley Wood 31st March – 1st April 2020Stanford 21st & 22nd April 2020Drayton 28th & 29th April 2020 For those residents with permits, please note that these can be used at any of the sites. Steve Burdis, Principal Officer for the...
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Waste Wizard – Find out how you can repair, reuse or recycle household items and which bin it goes in

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Get your waste to the right place! A new and magical hero is in town to kill the confusion around recycling. The Waste Wizard is a new online tool that’s here to provide a magical solution to help Oxfordshire residents in their quest to solve the riddle of household waste and defeat General Waste. Type in your postcode and the name of any item to find out whether it can be reused, repaired, donated, recycled, if it needs to go into a specific bin or can be disposed of at a Household Waste Recycling Centre – oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard ...
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New life-saving app

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A new potentially life-saving app can tell emergency services the precise location they need to go to when someone needs assistance and Thames Valley Police is encouraging everybody to install it on their smartphones. What3words divides the entire globe into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares – if someone needs assistance it will then provide a specific three-word code for where they are, making it a lot easier for the emergency services to find someone in a rural area or unfamiliar location.  The app, which is used by emergency services across the country, is free and doesn’t require an internet connection to use – for more information please see the what3words website ...
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Free parking in the run up to Christmas

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South Oxfordshire District Council’s special Christmas free parking days are back again this year. We provide the annual free parking tradition to encourage people to shop locally for their Christmas presents.  You will be able to park in our district council car parks without paying for or displaying a ticket on the following days next month: Didcot – Mondays (9, 16, 23 December)Goring – Saturdays (7, 14, 21 December)Henley – Tuesdays (3, 10,17 December)Thame – Saturdays (7, 14, 21 December)Wallingford -Thursdays (5, 12,19 December) For more about our car parks please visit southoxon.gov.uk/parking ...
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General Election 2019

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General Election 2019 On Thursday 12 December 2019 you can vote to elect an MP to represent your local area in parliament.  Here's some useful information about the election: Voter registration To vote on 12 December, you need to be registered by 26 November.  If you're not registered at your current address visit gov.uk/register-to-vote to ensure you are eligible to vote.If you have moved house since you last registered you will need to register again.   Polling cardsIf you registered to vote by 4 November, you should receive your poll card by 20 November – if you don't receive it by this date please call our Elections team on 01235 422528 to make sure you are still registered. If you registered after 4 November you should receive your poll card by 3 December.Postal and proxy votingPostal vote applications need to reach our Elections team by 5pm on 26 November – application forms are available at southoxon.gov.uk/votebypostIf you apply for a postal vote you should receive...
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Real Nappies Loan Scheme

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The council is offering free cloth nappy loan kits to parents, so they can ‘try before they buy’. The aim is to reduce the thousands of tonnes of nappies that are binned, costing the council around £1m a year to dispose of. If you live in Oxfordshire and would like to give real nappies a try, you can borrow a trial kit with no obligation to buy. Each kit contains a good range of styles and brands of nappies, with all the necessary accessories. They are held by local nappy suppliers and community groups, who will explain how the nappies work before you get started. Click here for more info ...
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Extra Garden Waste – week commencing 18th Nov

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Residents across southern Oxfordshire who are signed up for brown bin collections can put out twice as much garden waste during extra garden waste weeks this month. Crews will collect the equivalent of one extra bin’s worth of garden waste (around three large bin bags) during the following week: week commencing 18 November - South Oxfordshire Residents should leave their extra garden waste out in bin liners or sacks beside their brown bins on their usual collection day during these weeks. Trade waste bags cannot be accepted. Residents can sign up to the garden waste collections, which is a paid-for service by calling 01749 341247 or email garden-waste@capita.co.uk ...
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Letter to EU Nationals from SODC

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South Oxfordshire District Council has written to thousands of residents of our district who are EU nationals from countries outside of the UK. The letter explains what affected residents need to do to remain in the UK after Brexit and signposts them to further information. For data protection reasons, we were not able to send this letter to all our affected residents, and so we would like your support to help us reach as many more as possible. Click here to read the letter and we would be very grateful if you were able to use any of your communications channels as appropriate to spread the word, and to help us get it out to any hard-to- reach communities in your area. Andy RobertsCommunications Team Leader, Corporate Services South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils01235 422128 / 07717 274693 ...
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