Re-Use Schemes
Reuse Schemes
What is Freeuse?
Freeuse Leicestershire is an easy way to give old items a new life, either by giving away items, or taking them. The website offers a simple way for residents in the Leicestershire area to advertise items they no longer want, or pick up items they need, all items are free and the site makes it easy for givers and takers to use.
For further information please visit the freeuseit website.
Why become a Freeuser?
It is estimated that each year the UK population throws away over £5.6 billion worth of good quality reusable items. This waste often goes to landfill, what a waste, it also means we are buying millions of new items, when really perfectly good quality ones are out there for free. This is why Freeuse was set up, offering an easy way for local residents to reuse items and save them from landfill and save their wallets.
Alternative options
If you did not manage to find what you were looking for, why not try exploring the national schemes of freecycle, EcoBees and freegle (local groups available) and take advantage of their endless possibilities.
Frequently Asked Questions (4)
Crayford materials recycling facility utilises optical sortation equipment that uses NIR (Nir-Infra Red technology) to sort plastic by polymer type, which are then ejected from the mixed plastic stream. These are typically sorted into HDPE and PET bottle fractions. The remaining mixed plastic fractions are then sent for onward recycling and reprocessing. Dedicated plastic reprocessing facilities will have further optical sortation equipment to achieve full polymer sort of all plastic grades, this equipment can sort down to particles of only a few millimetres in diameter.
Those items cannot be accepted at present. As pointed out these comprise of metal and plastic that cannot easily be separated at a materials recycling facility. Viridor is constantly looking to expand the list of recyclable materials that can be accepted at its facilities so as technology develops, those and other type of materials may be accepted for recycling.
Plastic film such as supermarket carrier bags and LDPE sacks from commingled collection rounds are removed at the front end of the process. The Crayford facility utilises bag splitters, that have a rotating ripping drum that splits the bags and empties the contents. The film is then removed manually from the remainder of the recyclable stream.
No cleaning is completed at Crayford of the recyclable commodities. Crayford is the first stage of the reprocessing process, sorting the recyclable materials into individual grades. Materials are then baled and sent to dedicated reprocessors per material stream. These reprocessing facilities will often employ washing and drying facilities into their processes to de-label and remove contamination of products.
Last updated: Tue 3rd January, 2012 @ 15:13
