Recycle for Bertha Park to Reduce Climate Change

This pledge involves more extensive mini-recycling points within walking distance of homes, and the delivery of campaigns to increase awareness of the importance of diverting batteries, light bulbs, glass bottles and jars plus textiles and shoes from landfill. There will also be extensive promotion of food waste reduction in this community, ahead of the national target for 33% reduction in food waste by 2025.  

Waste Minimisation and Sustainable Waste Management are essential in fighting climate change. The Waste Services Team wants to make it as easy as possible to recycle because recycling needs to fit in with our busy lifestyles. The first step is to ensure that everyone knows what can be recycled, where it can be recycled and why it is important to divert the items from landfill.  

The Campaign 

Knowing where to recycle

The Adamson Avenue Recycling Point is easy to spot - there is clear signage above the Recycling Point.  

Knowing where to recycle textiles and shoes

The Adamson Avenue Recycling Point in the Bertha Park High School car park includes a Textile and Shoes Recycling Bank so that shoes and textiles in any condition can be easily dropped off for recycling. Textiles are one of the top three most carbon intensive household waste materials. 

Knowing where to recycle small electrical items 

Following the successful WEEE Term at Bertha Park High School (October 2021 to January 2022),  PKC's Waste Services Team has worked with the Electrical Recycling Contractor to introduce a Permanent Small WEEE Bank at the Adamson Avenue Recycling Point at Bertha Park. 

Householders across Bertha Park and school pupils are all encouraged to use the Pink WEEE Bank to recycle their old, unwanted or broken small electrical items (anything powered by a plug or a battery). 

There are valuable resources inside small electrical items.  These can be diverted from landfill so that the components can be recovered for remanufacturing, which helps reduce climate change.  

Examples of small electrical items are kettles, timers, electronic scales, toasters, telephones, hair-straighteners, leads, chargers, speakers, remote controls, children's electrical toys, radios, lamps, sat-navs, IT equipment, DIY tools, powered garden tools, gadgets.

Where it is safe to do so, please remove the batteries from the small electrical items.  Batteries can be dropped off for recycling at Bertha Park High School (in the battery recycling caddy) - householders with loose household batteries can call in at the school's Reception to drop them off.  Batteries can also be recycled at Council Recycling Centres, at Perth and Kinross libraries or at any shops, DIY stores and supermarkets which sell them. 

Knowing what to recycle and why it will help to reduce climate change

A Recycle for Bertha Park leaflet (PDF) [12MB]  has been developed to explain the value of the resources inside unwanted items such as small and large electrical and electronic equipment, light bulbs, batteries, glass bottles and jars, and shoes and textiles in any condition. The reuse and recycling of these resources is a key way for individual households to reduce their impact on climate change. In March 2021, this leaflet and the  New Household Waste & Recycling Service Guide (PDF) [1MB]   was posted to all of the households living in Bertha Park.