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New salt bins

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The parish has bought and installed new salt bins, each supplied with gloves and a shovel. One is located by the old telephone exchange in Kingston Blount, the other at the junction of the B4009 and the turn into Aston Rowant. Each will be filled with salt by Oxfordshire County Council. The council would like to politely reminder villagers to replace the gloves and shovel after use.

Two more salt bins for Aston Rowant – one at the bottom of School Lane by the Green and the other at the junction of Aston Gardens where it meets the road – have been bought and will be installed in time.

Photos wanted

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This new website needs your help with imagery. If you have any photos of the parish that you would like to have featured on the website, please send them to the clerk – see the contact page – for consideration. While we, the council, have created the website in reality it belongs to the whole community and we welcome your help.

There are only two stipulations – that if the images feature a person or someone’s home that you have their permission to use the image, and also, you have the right to use the image.

Recycling matters

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A recent visit to the Ardley energy from waste plant by one of your councillors – it’s where our black bin waste is sent – proved interesting. In essence, the plant receives some 300,000 tons of waste that instead of going to landfill is burnt and turned into 27Mw of electricity – enough to power 56,000 homes. Only 5% of the residue is sent to landfill as the ash is used in road building and the metals reclaimed; the only emission is water vapour.

The key takeaway from the plant operator is this: If there’s any doubt over the recyclability of an item, put it into the black bin so that it can be burnt with electricity being created. The wrong item in a green bin could mean that a whole load of recyclables will be rejected at the recycling plant in London. It will then have to be collected and sent at extra cost to Ardley… costing all of us more.