As from the beginning of September Mole Valley’s Kerbside collection service has been extended to include textiles and small electrical items. Textiles will be collected on recycling week, electrical items on refuse week. The items should be placed in a carrier bag, tied up tightly and placed beside the appropriate bin. Both materials are taken back to the Council’s Dorking depot and then sent onwards for processing and recycling.

Also, in addition to plastic bottles, plastic food trays pots and tubs can be placed directly into recycling bins (or sacks for properties using sacks) along with the existing mix of recycling (glass bottles/ jars, paper, card and metal tins and cans).

Textiles include paired shoes, curtains and bed sheets, clothes (in any condition) blankets and towels.

Recycling old or broken small eleectrical items including irons, kettles, toasters, and other small kitchen appliances and power tools. Hairdryers, hair clippers, hair straighteners, smoke detectors and thermostats. Radios, alarms, mini Hi-Fi’s CD/MP3 Players, clocks, calculators and torches. Mobile Phones, remote controls, cameras and charges. Small electronic toys (remote control cars), household batteries, mobile phone and laptop batteries are included. However No TV’s and monitors, No Large appliances and No fridges or freezers are accepted.

Jackie Coke, Parish Clerk – 01306 – 712447