Welcome to the Hatley website
This is Hatley Parish Council’s website for East Hatley and Hatley St George residents – and visitors: news, history, community information, local things and much else.
If you wish to contact the Parish Council, please do via the clerk:
Kim Wilde – clerk@hatley-pc.gov.uk.
Next bin collection
Thursday, 3rd September – Blue and green bins.
- The autumn 2026 edition of South Cambs magazine contains useful advice on which bin to use for plastics so ‘clean’ plastics can be recycled into new products (which, ironically, cannot be recycled again); there is also advice on safe disposal of batteries – click on the magazine’s cover and scroll down to page 21.
- South Cambs District Council’s website details ‘What are my bins for?‘
- Regarding your waste, South Cambs District Council says: ‘Most packaging can be recycled in blue bins, including cardboard, plastic and foil. Foil pieces should be collected together and scrunched into a ball approximately the size of a tennis ball before recycling.
- ‘It also helps to flatten cardboard boxes and squash plastic bottles – then you can fit more recycling in.
- ‘Food and drink packaging or containers need to be rinsed – they don’t have to be pristine, but food, grease and liquids left inside will spoil paper and card, making it unsuitable for recycling; plastic bottles should be squashed.
- ‘In turn, wet paper and card sticks to plastic packaging, making that harder to recycle too. These problems result in tonnes of items which could have been recycled having to be disposed of in landfill instead.’
A reminder – small, used batteries (inside a little bag) can be put on the top of any colour bin – the top, not inside to prevent bin lorries catching fire (which has happened several times over the last year or so).
Check our Rubbish collection page for general collection information.
Our blue bin rubbish now goes to Newry in Northern Ireland for processing – to a ‘state-of-the-art facility’ in Newry, says an SCDC press release. Previously it was processed in Waterbeach; there is no indication of when the 812 mile round trip will cease.
Page created by Peter Mann (without AI assistance) 23rd April 2019, updated 27th August 2026.