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As Waste Awareness Wales celebrates its sixth anniversary this month (March), it is encouraging spring cleaners to go the extra mile this year and consider six ways to reuse and recycle items from their home.

As poor global market prices for certain recyclable materials continue to fuel rumours of waste stockpiling by Welsh local authorities, Councillor Aled Roberts, Chair of Waste Awareness Wales, sets the record straight.

Waste Awareness Wales has today re-launched its online recycling bank locator making it even easier for people in Wales to get information on how to reuse and recycle a wide range of household items locally.

As preparations for Christmas get underway, Waste Awareness Wales is urging busy shoppers to be waste-aware over the festive season.

Thirteen babies from across Wales have been selected to star in a calendar to promote the use of real nappies in Wales.

Minister for Environment, Sustainability & Housing, Jane Davidson AM is pleased to launch the new Waste Awareness Wales national advertising campaign. Going live today, the campaign aims to empower people across Wales to take waste reduction, reuse and recycling to the next level.

As kids across Wales prepare to go back to school, Waste Awareness Wales is encouraging parents to pack them a waste-free lunch box to help reduce the amount of waste sent to Welsh landfills each year.

Latest research* carried out on behalf of Waste Awareness Wales indicates that the recent ‘recycle for Wales / ailgylchu dros Gymru’ television advertising campaign is helping the recycling message hit home with consumers across Wales. These findings further support last month's State of the Environment, 2008 bulletin issued by the Welsh Assembly Government which revealed people in Wales are now recycling more.

If the credit crunch is curbing your passion for fashion as you try to resist the lure of this summer’s sales, don’t despair. Waste Awareness Wales has the perfect solution for guilt-free shopping – the clothes swapping party.

A guide designed to help event organisers implement successful recycling schemes at their events has been launched at this year’s Royal Welsh Agricultural Show by the Welsh Assembly Government Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing, Jane Davidson.

With just a few weeks left to go until the closing date (27 June), Waste Awareness Wales are reminding Welsh parents that there is still time to enter their competition, the search for Wales’ most adorable babies to star in a new ‘Real Nappy Calendar’.

With Father’s Day (15 June) just around the corner, Waste Awareness Wales is urging us to think further than ties and socks, and instead consider a gift that’s unique and waste-free.

Waste Awareness Wales is encouraging consumers to recycle “just one more thing” as part of this year’s Recycle Week in June.

Waste Awareness Wales is urging people to get their hands dirty this Bank Holiday Monday for Compost Awareness Week.

This year’s Real Nappy Week (21-27 April) has been launched by Welsh newsreader and new mum Lucy Owen. As part of the week, Waste Awareness Wales and Sustainable Wales are encouraging new parents such as Lucy to consider using real nappies on their children – and has also launched a search to find babies from across Wales to star in a real nappy calendar.

A staggering 4.4 million whole apples are being thrown away untouched every day by households in the UK with fruit and vegetables making up a huge 40 per cent of food waste according to the latest figures from Waste Awareness Wales’ campaign Love Food Hate Waste / Hoffi Bwyd Casáu Gwastraff.

As Easter approaches, many of us will start to think about all things egg-shaped as approximately 80 million chocolate eggs will be bought in the UK over the Easter period. This year, without wanting to deny Wales’ chocoholics their sweet treats, Waste Awareness Wales is asking people to try and reduce the amount of packaging waste these chocolate eggs create.

Spring is in the air and many people’s thoughts are already turning to a spring clear-out. As this month Waste Awareness Wales celebrates its fifth anniversary – an occasion traditionally celebrated with gifts made of wood - they are asking people to consider reusing their old furniture when they have finished with it rather than sending it to landfill.

With Mother’s Day on 2 March this year, Welsh mums are in for a bit of well deserved pampering. Wales’ hardworking mums definitely deserve a treat, and this year Waste Awareness Wales has released a list of suggestions for the ultimate Mother’s Day gifts – presents that will both treat our mums and reduce the amount of waste that normally goes to landfill after the special day.

With Dydd Santes Dwynwen and Valentine’s Day fast approaching, millions of people across Wales will be celebrating the occasion by sending one of the approximately 13 million Valentine’s cards that are purchased in the UK every year.