Don’t forget 3 R’s for royal knees-up

RESIDENTS in Carmarthenshire are being reminded that their waste collections will take place as normal over the forthcoming bank holidays.

Refuse/recycling crews will be working as usual on Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Royal Wedding and May Day.

Householders are being encouraged to cut down on all that eggstra rubbish this Easter by reducing, reusing and recycling wherever possible.

Suggestions for reducing your waste include making your own chocolate goodies and Easter cakes instead of shop bought Easter eggs, decorating your own cards with foil from any leftover packaging or even sending your Easter greetings by email. And if you can’t resist a shop bought egg, don’t forget to reuse and recycle the packaging wherever possible.

Council sustainability officer Tina Brice said: “We are appealing to residents to recycle the cardboard packaging and the moulded plastic shell from their eggs in their blue bags or by using local recycling facilities. Clean card packaging can be reused as scrap paper or torn up and composted, and you can use the foil to decorate thank you cards and Easter bonnets for the children.”

Similarly, if you’re organising a street party for the Royal Wedding think about how you can cut down on your waste.

Impress the neighbours and save on packaging by making your own treats and buy drinks in larger bottles rather than lots of small ones to save resources.

Make your own unique bunting out of scraps of material and ask everyone to bring their own crockery and cutlery instead of buying disposables.

Tina added: “Remember to recycle your glass bottles and cans and if there is any leftover food, don’t throw it away, you can freeze it or why not use in a packed lunch.”

The county’s Household Waste Recycling Centres are open as usual over the bank holidays except for Llangadog which is closed on Easter Sunday. Trostre, Nantycaws, Wernddu, and Whitland are open daily from 8.30am to 7pm. Llangadog is open from 8am to 6pm weekdays and 10am to 4pm weekends and bank holidays.