Sofa
Have you bought a new couch? Are you having a house clearance? If you think that you no longer need a piece of furniture or an electrical appliance which could be useful to somebody else, then SOFA is the place to contact.
SOFA is a registered charity that was established 30 years ago in Leicester, and moved to Loughborough in 2005. The project is funded by Leicestershire County Council.
SOFA works in partnership with Charnwood Borough Council towards achieving the targets set for recycling and reuse. Moreover, SOFA provides training opportunities which help volunteers gain valuable skills and confidence to get into employment.
For more information on how you can benefit from the scheme, either by donating/buying goods, or you would like to become a volunteer, visit SOFA’s website.
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: Thu 26th April, 2012 @ 11:12
