In late 2019, a few like-minded people in the village decided to get together to provide a place for local ‘green’ initiatives to unite under one umbrella to help Cuckfield become a more sustainable community. Now nearly 20 people strong and growing, Greener Cuckfield has just launched its first programme: a scheme to give more recycling options to the village. The group conducted a poll a few months ago to find out what materials people most wanted to recycle and the top vote was for: crisp packets! Over 6 billion packets of crisps are consumed in the U.K. each year, most of which ends up in landfill sites or blowing in the wind.

Working in co-operation with Terracycle, a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle materials, the first bins have been placed in the Queen’s Hall (for public use, in the entrance hall next to the food bank bins) and another in the Village Hall entrance hall (for hirers’ use only). People can collect up their crisp packets and drop them in whether on their daily dog walk, on their school run, or while making use of the post office counter.

Over the next couple of months, more bins will be rolled out in some of our pubs and other public places. Not only will the bins help in cutting waste and keeping our streets tidy, but they will also raise bit by bit funds for us to do more to make Cuckfield a more sustainable place.

The group would love to hear from anyone who would like to help make Cuckfield a more sustainable, environmentally friendly place to live and should contact Vicky Koch at vicky@iamkoch.com.