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Join the Big Recycling Hunt at the Marlowes Shopping Centre
The Big Recycling Hunt is coming to the Marlowes Shopping Centre on Saturday 14 October 2023 for Recycle Week.
We are running the event in partnership with Hemel Hempstead Business Improvement District (BID), from 11am to 3pm, to raise awareness of the importance of recycling.
Schools and youth groups across the borough have been challenged to create sculptures of endangered species using recycling and waste materials. These sculptures will be on display in the shopping centre from 14 October, throughout Recycle Week. Entries will be accepted until 6 October. Instructions on how to enter are on our Schools Recycling page.
The sculptures will be judged by a local art student, a Dacorum Street Champion volunteer and Cllr Adrian England, our Portfolio Holder for Climate Change and Deputy Leader, on 14 October.
Local organisations, including the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, Sunnyside Rural Trust and Frogmore Paper Mill, will be running interactive activities, providing ideas about how we can help to protect our local environment. Activities will include decorating a papier-mâché giraffe, learning how to make bird feeders and learning how to make your own paper. Members of our environmental communications team will also be on hand to discuss common recycling myths and misconceptions.
Between 11am and 2pm, Imajica Theatre - a local theatre company - will be performing Heidi’s New Shell, sharing important environmental information filled with positive solutions to help save the planet and make the world a brighter place to live. The theatre company will also run a workshop at 1pm, in between the performances, to bring the story to life in an interactive way.
Cllr England said: “What a quest! Recycling right is so important - learning the knowledge and the craft. Being able to recover more of the correct materials is vital to reduce the need for landfill as well as reducing the need to extract raw materials, which create substantial air and water pollution.
“This event will be a brilliant way to ignite the passion in children and their families to help protect our planet by doing something simple in our homes.”