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Voluntary Organisations Offering Recycling Services

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Sue Ryder Care

Is a leading charity for neurological and palliative care which has recently launched a scheme to encourage people to recycle mobile phones and ink/toner cartridges to help raise essential funds for their healthcare services.

Recycle your used ink/toner cartridges and mobile phonesin the boxes and bags provided by Cartridges4Causes. For more information call 0845 4667147 or visit www.cartridges4causes.co.uk.

Help the Aged

Help the Aged

Help the Aged has launched a recycling programme which enables the public to support Help the Aged by recycling stamps, foreign currency, toner cartridges and mobile phones.

For more information go to: www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb/HowYouCanHelp/Recycling/

MindMind, the leading mental health charity is opening a furniture shop in Syston, and wouldwelcome donations of re-usable furniture and electrical items. Mind will also undertake house clearances. For more information, or to book a collection, please call 0116 2780865.

Sofa LogoLeicestershire Furniture Re-use Projects

Furniture re-use projects collect a wide range of household items and electrical appliances to pass onto people in need and people wanting second hand furniture.

The primary objectives are:

Help people on low income by the provision of reasonable quality low cost furniture
Improve the employment prospects of volunteers by providing opportunities for work experience and job skills

To find out more details about this project please visit www.sofareuse.org, email admin@sofareuse.org, or call 01509 262557.

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Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Can the Equipment Used in the Material Recycling Facility (Mrf) Separate Pieces of Plastic According to Type Regardless of Their Size?

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.

Can the Materials Recycling Facility Deal with Jam Jar or Similar Caps and Lids? These Are Similar to Cans but Have a Plastic Seal.

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 at present. 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.

How Can the New Recycling Service Save the Council Money?

There is a value to recycling, as it can be sold onto manufacturers to be made into new things.  Any income generated from selling the recycling is put back into the service provided, so helping to keep Council Tax to a minimum.  

Under the previous contract, the Council were paid a fixed, low rate for the recycling.  Whilst this gave security through a guaranteed income when the value of recycling was low, it didn't take into account times when the value was higher.  

The new contract for the sale of recycling to Viridor has a fluctuating value associated with the materials, so that when the market value is high, the Council get more money for the materials, and when the value is low, we get less.  For security, there is a minimum value built into the contract, to ensure that we always get a reasonable payment for the materials.

 

This contract with Viridor also requires them to provide, at their expense, a transfer facility so that the Council is only required to travel to Mountsorrel to tip the waste collected.  Under the previous contract, each vehicle had to travel to Coalville two or three times a day to tip.  This change represents a big saving in terms of fuel (both financial and environmental savings) and time.

The cost of introducing green bins has been met by Serco, the Council's waste collection contractor.  These represent a long-term investment with a one-off payment for bins, which is more cost effective over time than the continual supply of recycling bags.

How Does the Equipment in the Materials Recycling Facility (Mrf) Deal with Plastic Film?

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.

How Is the Recycling Sorted?

The recycling is sorted by Viridor at their plant in Kent, using machinery.  To view films of this process, please follow this link to You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DAk8m7sVM4

There Are Considerable Costs and Emissions in Transporting the Waste to Kent Rather Than Processing It Locally. Have These Costs Been Assessed and Are There Any Better Alternatives to Look Into?

Charnwood Borough Council undertook a competitive tender process to find out the most efficient and cost-effective solution for the processing of recyclables collected across the borough. After the council’s comprehensive assessment, Viridor's tender successfully met the council’s criteria and proved to be the preferred option.

The Crayford MRF facility is located in close proximity to a number of its reprocessing partners, so although the front end movement of material from Charnwood to Crayford may be seen as a long journey, the movement from Crayford to the next stage of reprocessing is in many cases reduced. An example of this is that Viridor trades with Aylesford Newsprint Ltd, a large recyclable newsprint mill in Kent, which is only approximately 20 miles from the Crayford facility.

The Video Describing the Recycling Process Does Not Show Any Cleaning Processes for the Waste; How Is This Achieved?

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.

What is the final destination of the content of my green recycling bin?

In order to check how the materials you recycle are being treated please click on the follow links for each type of material:

Plastic

Metal

Glass

Paper

Last updated: Wed 9th November, 2011 @ 13:36

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