Read the latest edition of Junk Mail, the Devon Composting and recycling Network Newsletter.

It is packed with interesting articles including a new scheme creating furniture from used disposable nappies, the setting up of the UK's first tetra pack recycling plant and the news that Devon leads the way in schools 'cooked food waste' composting.

One hundred and fifty four schools in Devon now have specialist composting equipment suitable to for cooked food waste including several in our area. Over the last three years, the Composting in Schools scheme, funded through the sale of land around Exeter Airport by Devon County Council and assisted by Resource Futures, has enabled eight learning communities (the secondary school or community college with all its 'feeder' primary schools) to set up composting systems.

Pages 14 and 15  have two interesting short articles on mixed plastics: on the one hand WRAP (Waste and Resources Recycling Programme) urging local authorities to collect and recycle rigid mixed plastics, but on the other hand there are numerous plastics to diesel processing plants being build to convert plastic waste to liquid fuels.

Read the latest issue of JunkMail.  It has an article on WAG's plastics efforts so far:

"Mixed plastic recycling - where next? Sustainable Crediton and Uffculme Compost Magic have proved there is a huge public demand for mixed plastic recycling collection points in the community. UCM have been collecting mixed plastics at their site in Uffculme for several years. Sustainable Crediton has undertaken several successful plastics recycling events at Morrison's supermarket in Crediton, as reported in the last issue. 75 dumpy bags of rigid plastic packaging were collected over twomornings, equating to about 75 cubic metres.................."

Watch out for the Waste Action Group at this years' Crediton Food Festival in June when we will be organising the recycling. We are also still working on developing a food plastics recycling facility for the town and looking at the possibility of a campaign to reduce plastic packaging. More news as events unfold.

Sandi the former manager of Punchbowl recycling site near Crediton has retired. In her place the site has a new manager who has moved to Crediton from the Ashleigh site near Tiverton. She is buzzing with ideas about how to make the site more 'user friendly' so why not take your recycling along there and give it a try!

Junk Mail

Junk Mail comes out every 3 months. The current edition contains a great article about our plastic collection days in September. Here is a taster of another very interesting article in the current issue:

• 'Devon has come a long way in the last 20 years from a recycling rate of just 2% in 1990/91 to 55% today.

• This was considered a high achievement at that time and Devon won the Friends of the Earth first "Recycling County" award. So what's possible in the future?'

Junk Mail comes out every 3 months. The current edition contains a great article about our plastic collection days in September. Here is a taster of another very interesting article in the current issue:

• 'Devon has come a long way in the last 20 years from a recycling rate of just 2% in 1990/91 to 55% today.

• This was considered a high achievement at that time and Devon won the Friends of the Earth first "Recycling County" award. So what's possible in the future?'