Love Peterborough, Love Your Community, a joint project between Peterborough City Council, Amey and Jump (Local Green Points) launched just over a week ago and already hundreds of residents have signed up to take part. The scheme reaches 35,000 homes in the seven wards of Eye, Thorney, Stanground, Hampton, East,Walton, Paston and North Bretton, which have been identified as having lower than average recycling rates. Residents who have joined the scheme have a chance to earn rewards for themselves as well as rewards for their local community.
Individual rewards will take the form of vouchers for local leisure and shopping centres, as well as for composting starter packs, garden gift vouchers and electrical items. Love Peterborough, Love Your Community also focuses on rewarding communities for improving their recycling rates, with residents of the communities that recycle the most able to vote for which local charity projects they’d like to receive a share of £3,000.
The scheme encourages residents of Peterborough to take actions that not only result in less waste being produced, but that are also good for their communities – such as donating to charity shops, donating and buying items from WEEE reuse facilities and reporting flytipping.
To find out if their household is eligible to be part of the scheme, residents should send their address is using the contact form.
For more information, and to sign up for the scheme, please visit www.lovepeterborough.com
