You no longer need to waste valuable petrol transporting your stuff for recycling to your local supermarket or council refuse tip. The leaflets below tell you what to do and where to go.

• Be really green and recycle close to home.
  For neighbourhood recycling points in and around our 3 villages download this leaflet.
• Blue Bin Recycling in Babergh District
  Need to know what you can put in your blue bin for recycling? This leaflet will tell you all you need to know.

A list of organisations that can help you to recyle or reuse your unwanted items. Click on the green headings to visit sites/download information.

• Be really green and recycle close to home.
  For neighbourhood recycling points in and around our 3 villages download this leaflet.
• Blue Bin Recycling in Babergh District
  Need to know what you can put in your blue bin for recycling? This leaflet will tell you all you need to know.
• Community Repaint
  A national network for redistributing unwanted paint thereby helping local communities and reducing the impact of this waste on the environment
• Freecycle
  A worldwide network, with UK groups, for giving and exchanging unwanted items.
• Junkk.com
  A website setup to introduce people to innovative ideas to help save the planet.
• Oil Bank
  A website for locating an oil bank closest to you so that you can dispose your waste engine oil.
• Pesticide Action Network UK
  Information on your local council’s means of assisting the safe disposal of pesticides.
• Re-Cycle : Bicycle Aid for Africa
  A british charity set up to provide cheap, sustainable transport to less devolved countries.
• Read-It-Swap-It!
  Book swapping website for the avid reader.
• Recycle
  A bit like ebay but a free means of recycling unwanted goods around the UK.
• Recycle It
  This organisation recycles business computers and at the same time is a social enterprise providing training, paid work experience and real jobs for homeless and other long term unemployed people.
• Recycle-More
  A one-stop recycling information centre that helps and advises on all aspects of recycling at home, at school and in the workplace. Has a search database of local recycling schemes.
• RecycleNow
  A general website encouraging recycling in its many forms
• ThinkCans.com
  Website promoting recycling aluminium cans. Teacher’s resources and advice on raising money for charities.
• TWAM - Tools with a Mission
  A christian charity, on our doorstep, that sends tool across the world to enablepeople to earn a living and support themselves.

With thanks to the team members past and present who have contributed to the list of major and minor achievements of the Village Green Teams organisation:

• ALL ABOUT RUBBISH meeting in March 2006
• MIND THE GAP meeting about insulation 28th June 2006
• ALTERNATIVE ENERGY workshop 7th October 2006
• VIRIDOR RE-CYCLING PLANT visit October 2006
• PERFECT BLUE BIN POSTER produced by Green Teams
• BATTERY BOXES IN STOKE BY NAYLAND CHURCH & POLSTEAD
• RE-CYCLING COLLECTION POINT for bikes & tools IN POLSTEAD.
• Al Gore’s film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH shown twice at Polstead.
• 10 EASY GREEN STEPS POSTER produced by Green Teams
• Visit to the inspiring HADLEIGH ECO SCHOOL. April 2007
• Visit to Greenlight Trust office “THE GREENEST BUILDING IN UK”
• SAVE RURAL POST OFFICES CAMPAIGN
• CRED Climate Change WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH GROUPS. June 07
• September 2007 VGT display at Babergh seminar on climate change
• November 2007 promoted Green Squirrel home insulation project
• January 2008 Christmas card recycling collection
• February 2008 sponsored ‘lights out’ at Stoke Church
• March 2008 ‘Say no to plastics’ campaign
• May 2008 visit to TWAM
• May 2008 launch of VGT website

Below are a list of promotional materials and information sheets to help you educate and push green issues in your local community. You are welcome to re-badge these materials with your own organisation’s logo. Contact us if you need more than cosmetic changes to the artwork.

This leaflet provides clear instructions and drawings so any handy person in your community can contruct a collection box for batteries, mobile phones, ink jet cartridges and any other domestic products that are specially recycled. The VGT teams currently have their battery collection boxes sited in their churches at Stoke by Nayland and Polstead. Some of the these boxes were made by Hollesley Open Prison.
Simple construction drawings can be printed off here.

If you live in Babergh District, then, this is a must have leaflet. It explains graphically and in plain english what should and should not be placed in the blue recycling bin. It is a useful for promoting recycling in your community; lessening the confusion that often accompanies recycling schemes. The Blue bin leaflet can be downloaded as a pdf and printed off. Contact VGT if you require help rebadging the leaflet.

Humour always helps to get the message across. 10 East Steps to Make a Green Difference is illustrated with amusing cartoons to highlight ways to make our lives greener and more sustainable. 10 Easy Steps to a Greener lifestyle leaflet

Inspired by a visit to Beaumont ‘Eco’ School in Hadleigh and viewing their sedum roof, local ecologist, Richard Kilshaw, has written this article on making your shed roof greener with local flora.

Another article from Richard Kilshaw , ecologist. Here he explains how to create a patch of wildlife grassland on your property and encourage a habitat for a whole host of wildlife, including insects, birds, voles, hedgehogs, reptiles and even bats. This sort of ‘gardening’ is more drought tolerant, just what is needed in East Anglia. Making Your Grass Greener

Everthought of using a wormery to clean up your kitchen scraps, raw or cooked? Wormeries are compact, produce concentrated liquid fertiliser and quality compost and compliment traditional composting methods for recycling garden waste. From the practical experience gained by a non ‘expert’ VGT member, this leaflet is a simple guide to setting up and running a wormery. Guide to setting up a wormery

Up to 30% of household rubbish can be
composted so here’s your chance to help reduce the landfill and in the process cut your community tax bill and produce some muck for your roses or beans. This comprenhensive composting guidewill explain how to set and manage your composting.

The Village Green Teams organised a visit to VIRIDOR RE-CYCLING FACILITY
On Tuesday 10th October 2007

Our aim was to take a group representing different organisations in the community so that they could share information as widely as possible across the three villages. (List of attenders below.)

We were impressed by the amazing sorting process and came away convinced that it is worth the effort to separate out re-cyclable products. We were also horrified by the amount of domestic rubbish that still has to go to landfill.
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