A competition to encourage more people to reduce, reuse and recycle is offering families the chance to win a year's free membership to any of Cheshire East Council's leisure centres.
Cheshire East Council is committed to reducing the amount of waste that is destined for the black bin and the competition is designed to find the 'Recycling Champions of the Year'. There will also be six runner-up prizes to see the Magic of Beatrix Potter at Tatton Park.
Councillor Rod Menlove, Cabinet member in charge of the environment, said: "We'd like to hear from 'green' families across the borough, doing their bit for Cheshire East.
"We want to hear the best and brightest ideas about how to recycle leftover food so that it doesn't end up in the bin. Around one third of black bin waste is food.
"We'd also like to hear about novel ways to recycle and reuse your household waste and, hopefully, change people's thinking to a 'mend and make do' mentality.
"All the great ideas will be passed on to the public through our publicity campaign and they will hopefully inspire other people to try different ways to recycle and cut down on all the unnecessary waste."
The winners of the competition, including the runners-up, will be announced in January.
To take part email: [email protected] outlining in no more than 150 words why you should be considered as the 'Recycling Champions of the Year'. Include your name, address and telephone number. The deadline for entering is January 18th, 2013.
For more information log on to: www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/recycling or call 0300 123 5011.
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As for other waste. Try telling the manufactures to cut down on their excess packaging for a start. Shop in M&S food and see the huge amount of waste caused by buying a few of their nice little nibbles, and then they have the cheek to charge for a bag with the excuse its to protect the environment.