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'Walking Together' is a permanent reminder of Markham's strong mining heritage and honours the miners who lost their lives in 3 accidents at the site.

Derbyshire is excellent for walking with opportunities to explore our stunning countryside, historic towns and villages, canals, rivers and more.

Find a warm and welcoming space, or find out about grants to open a warm and welcoming space.

Confused by what you can or can't recycle? Think it's a waste of time anyway? Find clear answers to many of the common myths about recycling.

We have contracts in place for managing waste which is collected by the district and borough councils and from our household waste recycling centres.

The new Waste Plan (being jointly prepared with Derby City Council) will replace the existing Waste Local Plan (adopted in 2005).

Derbyshire councils are committed to reducing waste to landfill and to increasing recycling and composting to a joint target of 55% by 2020.

There are many different ways of treating waste leftover after recycling and composting has taken place. Treating waste reduces what is landfilled.

Did you know around 20,000 bananas are thrown away in Derbyshire every day – that's around one banana out of every 10 that ends up in the bin.

Save water - use a water butt. Using a water butt is a great way to store rainwater that can be used for composting or other purposes.