We are committed to trying to reduce the waste that we produce.

Monitoring

Monitoring is crucial for many reasons so we are making an effort to

record how much cottage rubbish we send to landfill each month,

and how much recycling we collect.

What goes where

You will find clearly marked bins at the site entrance for general

waste and recycling.

We have commercial waste collections throughout the season for

plastic bottles, paper, cardboard, metal tins these are collected

once a fortnight by Northumberland County Council. Glass is

recyclable at a few locations locally including the Sun Inn and St

Mary’s village hall we encourage guests to try to take their glass

away with them to recycle themselves at one of the above locations

or if not we collect it and take it to be recycled ourselves. We collect

batteries too take them to the recycling point at the tip in Morpeth to

avoid them going to landfill.

Compost

We have small compost bins in each cottage. This helps us make

great compost for the kitchen garden. We do not have a hot

composter so cannot accept cooked foods or meats in the compost

bins. Growing food using compost made from food waste is a

simple but direct and very positive solution to one waste issue and

we are grateful that nearly all our guests use the compost bins!Solutions

What we need to do is reduce what we use and recycle whatever

we can. This is a policy across the business. Ensuring we buy in

bulk to waste less packaging; utilise and reuse whatever we can;

make things last longer; avoid needless replacements in the

cottages (whilst keeping the cottages homely and welcoming and

comfortable).

Feedback

We welcome feedback from guests as to what we can do to keep

on improving – we put those ideas into our Waste Management

Plan.