The award-winning recycle and re-use scheme, Get It Out for Cardiff (GIOFC) is back for its 10th year.
Get it Out for Cardiff is the Cardiff Council initiative in association with Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University and the University of South Wales, which helps students to clear out their rubbish at the end of the academic year. The aim is to ensure that moving out of student accommodation at the end of term is stress-free and leaves our communities clean and tidy. Students responded in style last year, with over 16 tonnes of re-usable items donated to charity with a 14% increase in recycling recorded.
18 Green Zones will be set up across the city university sites where you can donate clothing, food (tins, packets, jars etc), small electrical items, books, CDs, DVDs and kitchen items (plates, mugs, utensils, pans etc). Any food collected will be re-distributed by Fareshare Cymru to relieve food poverty in our communities.
Kitchen items collected will be stored over the summer by our partners, Cardiff Self Storage, and sold at the start of term at heavily discounted prices with all proceeds going to the Lord Mayor’s chosen charity.
GIOFC has once again teamed up with the YMCA who provide re-use banks all year round across Cardiff to collect clothes, shoes, bags, textiles, small electrical items, books, CDs/DVDs. The items collected are used by the YMCA to directly reinvest in projects and services for homeless people at the Cardiff YMCA Housing Association.
In an exciting new development we will be working with European Recycling Platform (ERP) who will assist GIOFC with larger electrical items and any surplus electronic products generated through the YMCA collection banks. This will divert even more of the items collected from landfill.
Cabinet Member for Environment, Cllr Bob Derbyshire said, “GIOFC is a fantastic, innovative and award-winning campaign run by a highly committed partnership team that achieved great results last year with a 14% increase in recycling and a 28% reduction in complaints. Through this scheme, we work closely with Cardiff’s universities to give students a great opportunity to reuse, recycle and dispose of their waste in a responsible manner while making a valuable contribution to their communities and charities through our partners, Fareshare Cymru and the YMCA.
‘The student community is an important and vibrant part of the Cardiff social landscape and I urge all students in the area to make use of the additional service and this fantastic reuse and recycling campaign to play an important part in making Cardiff a cleaner, greener and more sustainable city.’
Students will also be reminded that their household collections will involve ‘Two in June,’ general waste collections. Kerbside collections in June for Cathays, Gabalfa and Plasnewydd will be as follows:
DATE
General waste (black bins/bags)
11/06/14
25/06/14
Recycling (green bags)
04/06/14
11/06/14
18/06/14
25/06/14
Food waste (food caddy)
04/06/14
11/06/14
18/06/14
25/06/14
Waste should be presented after 4pm on Tuesday’s; bins should be removed as soon as possible following collection.
Details of the campaign, including the location of donation points, can be found online at www.cardiffdigs.co.uk
