Did You Know - The Right Place For Your Waste
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The right place for your waste/recycling!
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Did You Know - The Right Place For Your Waste
The right place for your waste/recycling!
Putting things into the right bin does matter, as does delivering hard waste items to one of our transfer stations. Placing things into the wrong kerbside bin or skip bin can result in a whole load being rejected. This results in additional transport and landfill costs that can only result in higher waste costs for the community.
In the case of kerbside bins, it is what goes into the two recycling bins - mixed recycling and glass recycling. If there is a significant proportion of non-recyclable material in those bins then the load can be rejected and the whole lot can end up in landfill.
Materials that can go into the mixed recycling bin:
Packaging plastics with the numbers 1,2 & 5 stamped on them
Cardboard & paper
Packaging metals including steel cans and aluminium
Items such as textiles, toys, kitchen equipment, electrical items and batteries cannot go into the mixed recycling bin.
The only type of glass that can go into the glass recycling bin is packaging glass - bottle and jars. Broken drinking glasses, mirrors and automotive glass cannot go into this bin.
When you go to one of our transfer stations with a load of different materials, you will be asked what you have in the load. While green garden waste is free it is not an opportunity to hide other items and to avoid paying for them. Non-organic garden waste does not go into green waste and can be a problem when the green waste is shredded.
When a loaded skip is taken to landfill it is checked for a range of prohibited items. If these items are found when a load is taken to landfill then the load will be rejected and not accepted until the prohibited items are removed. Again, this costs more money.
Key items that the landfill operator will be looking for include (but are not limited to):
Mattresses
Tyres
Asbestos
Batteries and E-waste
Gas cylinders
All of these items can be recycled and may be charged separately when they are dropped off at the transfer station.
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