TPRS Tendring Primary Recycling Scheme

05/09/2026

Once again TPRS Tendring Primary Recycling Scheme will be gathering a team of volunteers to help take part in the Great British Beach Clean. Please do join us .
Hot drinks supplied afterwards.
We will MEET at the Greensward cafe near Toby carvery shortly before 10 am Sunday 27th September.
Please let us know if you can join us
All equipment supplied courtesy of CleanupUK.

TPRS is a CleanupUK hub and anyone is welcome to use the litterpicking equipment for free.

01/09/2026

RECYCLING SCHEME UPDATES

As recycling avenues evolve so too do the Terracycle recycling schemes sponsored by the different manufacturers.

There have been a number of changes recently to what we can now recycle through our drop off points.

There’s still lots we can take, not just via Terracycle.

Please take a moment today to visit the webpage to update yourself.

https://tendringprimaryrecyclescheme.weebly.com

06/08/2026

We are incredibly sad to announce the closure of another scheme . In August the bakery scheme is to close due to the schemes sponsor no longer funding terracycle to run it .
We will STILL ACCEPT CAKE and BISCUIT soft plastic packaging , including things like chocolate brioche wrappers and plastic packets from cookies etc
Sadly we will no longer have a scheme for the bakery plastic trays or for packaging from savoury baked items like pitta, rolls, bread etc

you can continue to use bread bags for sorting and separating your recycling for us, we will recycle them via supermarket plastic after use .

Please drop all bakery recycling to us before 8th August. Earlier if you can please to allow us time to get it fed through from drop off hosts .

Come October you will be able to recycle the plastic trays via your kerbside recycling in Tendring and the soft plastics can go to supermarket soft plastic schemes

We’re sorry this is happening but truly appreciate everyone that has supported this scheme over the years .

06/08/2026

Another £18 added to the account for WeCare Wildlife Rescue yesterday when we dropped a carload of metal foil, metal lids and w**e caps to the lovely team at Clacton Metal Recycling LTD.
It all adds up and keeps it from landfill too.. WIN WIN

the team at CMR are all so lovely, always friendly and so helpful. You pull up, open the boot and they do all the unloading.

For these three scheme we accept w**e caps, jar lids, and any metal foil / aluminium foil including foil trays, foil milk tops etc. please keep these three types separated to help save us time resorting at the hub.

PLEASE NOTE … foiled plastics are not accepted in the foil scheme . Scrunch your foil item, if it stays scrunched then it’s likely foil, if it unfolds it’s likely foiled plastic ( like a foil biscuit wrapper which needs to go into the biscuit scheme)

11/04/2026

We accept these all year through, ready to support Macmillan Cancer Support when the Tub2pub scheme reopens

You can drop them off to any of our drop off locations here:
https://tendringprimaryrecyclescheme.weebly.com/drop-off-locations.html

03/03/2026

♻️ Are you recycling everything you can through us?

ℹ️ Take a look here and see what you could save for recycling: https://tendringprimaryrecyclescheme.weebly.com/

02/03/2026

Calling all the awesome Local Area Guardians that borrowed litter picking equipment from us … please help us and ensure you record those litter picks you’re doing on your daily/ weekly/monthly walks etc.

Thank you for making such a positive difference, not just in your chosen area but to the environment overall. ♥️ 🚮

A shout out to all the Local Area Guardians who have borrowed kit from TPRS Tendring Primary Recycling Scheme. Please remember to log your litter pick via the link below and help us show what a fantastic impact is being made by the TPRS community.

If you’d like more info on starting a group, organising a group litter pick or anything else litter pick related, please do get in touch.

https://www.cleanupuk.org.uk/log/EP9G

24/02/2026

2986 sweet tubs / biscuit tubs and lids were passed from the TPRS community to the Roaring Donkey Green king pub for this years Macmillan Cancer Support Tub2Pub campaign.
We didn’t get the great photo finish line up like we had in previous years as the weather was truly grim unfortunately.
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone that passed us their tubs, and an even bigger thank you to those that encouraged family, friends, neighbours or colleagues to support it too.

Big thanks to Louise Ambrose for once again giving up her summer house to store a couple of thousand tubs, and to Judy Simpson and the Clacton conservatives club for also storing hundreds of them for us . Thanks to The Harwich Hive , and Walton and District Community FoodBank for also being drop off points and storage hosts.
We know lots of you got involved and I’m sorry I’ve not named everyone but I’d be sure to leave someone important out and I would hate to cause offence. This really is a community effort and every single person that helped is truly appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing if the scheme will repeat next year but we are accepting and storing tubs already in readiness 🩷

This is a great example of how one man’s waste is another man’s treasure ♻️ and these plastics will go on now to become something new meanwhile raising funds for a fantastic charity .

18/02/2026

♻️ We can take any type of plastic lids and plastic bottle tops for recycling. Any size, shape or colour please.

Find your nearest drop off point here: https://tendringprimaryrecyclescheme.weebly.com/drop-off-locations.html