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Where can I recycle…..?

Elpenor

Elpenor

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I thought a generic thread on recycling those less usual things which don’t obviously go in your recycling bin might be useful :)

I recently discovered that large Tesco stores allow you to recycle light bulbs for example :cool:

I have several old ASDL filters to recycle - no longer needed as I have a digital only line. Not sure where I can recycle these - or who might find a use for them - any ideas?
 
Elpenor said:
Sounds like I need to pay a trip to the dump to get shot of the micro filters then :oldthumbsup:
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some councils do have local points for 'small electrical' recycling.

having said that, many councils do not make it easy - especially if you don't have a car.

there isn't a tip in wokingham borough - you have to go either to bracknell or reading, and the one at bracknell doesn't allow pedestrians in, you have to go in a car or a van. but not too big a van obviously, because you might be a trader not an individual.

mum-tat lives almost in one corner of lewisham borough, the tip is in the opposite corner (i'm not sure if they allow pedestrians in, but at 80+ she's not going to do a journey involving 3 buses to take stuff there anyway.)

and then there's elaborate systems for pre-booking tip visits and proving you're not an infiltrator from the next borough and all that sort of thing, you can understand why some people just don't bother...
 
Failing any easy option I tend to just put stuff like small electricals in our blue wheelie bin, which is for plastics, card, metal and glass, and which I presume is hand sorted at some stage, and the hand sorters to can deal with the unexpected items.
 
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WouldBe said:
Check with your council. Round here you can leave small electrical items on top of your recycling bin on collection days.
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I’ve gone through their quite helpful A-Z of items but can’t find them other than to take household electrical items to the tip.

I can use various ones around Devon so will go to the one near work next week
 
platinumsage said:
Failing any easy option I tend to just put stuff like small electricals in our blue wheelie bin, which is for plastics, card, metal and glass, and which I presume is hand sorted at some stage, and the hand sorters to can deal with the unexpected items.
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i think that's the wrong approach - putting any stuff that's not recyclable (under whatever the local scheme is) in the recycling bin can (we are told) end up with a load being sent for landfill instead.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
i think that's the wrong approach - putting any stuff that's not recyclable (under whatever the local scheme is) in the recycling bin can (we are told) end up with a load being sent for landfill instead.
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Yes that's what I've heard but I've not seen any evidence to back it up. It seems highly unlikely to me, because mixed recyclable waste is definitely sorted, as you obviously can't recycle glass, plastic and cardboard in the same process.
 
Didn’t know that about the crisps - would it work for packets of nuts (like cashews etc with the foil lining
 
stavros said:
Every Coop food shop near me has bins for crisp packets too. I think it might be a nationwide initiative.
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Elpenor said:
Didn’t know that about the crisps - would it work for packets of nuts (like cashews etc with the foil lining
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more here - including a 'check if your local store does it'

there are a number of different regional co-op chains, so what happens at one might not happen at another - of my nearest handful of co-op branches, there's 2 or 3 different entities running them...
 
Typically none of the coops in my part of Devon do the crisp recycling which also seems to be for cellophane and is virtually the only thing that goes in my small kitchen bin
 
platinumsage said:
Yes that's what I've heard but I've not seen any evidence to back it up. It seems highly unlikely to me, because mixed recyclable waste is definitely sorted, as you obviously can't recycle glass, plastic and cardboard in the same process.
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And how would they know that there was any unrecyclable waste unless they did sort it? It has never made sense.
 
farmerbarleymow said:
M & S take some plastic for recycling, at least in the larger stores.

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Many of the supermarkets will take soft plastics, with the carrier bags - a lot of toilet rolls packets, bread wrappers, fruit and veg bags etc, say on them things like "Recycle with bags at larger stores" usually in tiny writing though.

What plastics can be recycled - numbers guide:

Your Guide To Recycling | CS Pouches

Terracycle (many biscuit wrappers, cheese wrappers and other things) - has a symbol bit like a green infinity sign:

TerraCycle
 
maomao said:
And how would they know that there was any unrecyclable waste unless they did sort it? It has never made sense.
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Plus any load that is sent to landfill incurs landfill tax, which is more per tonne than a couple of minimum wage employees and a conveyor belt for an hour.
 
maomao said:
And how would they know that there was any unrecyclable waste unless they did sort it? It has never made sense.
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Round here the binmen look in the recycling bin before emptying it in the lorry. If there is garden / food waste or general waste they won't empty the bin.
 
I've inherited loads of old clothes hangers, mainly plastic. I don't think recycling would accept them (I suppose I could leave one out and ask). Sort of thing charity shops might want but they do always seem to have loads of them.

I find it strange that the council don't seem to accept engineering plastics, they must not be able to recycle them.
 
two sheds said:
I've inherited loads of old clothes hangers, mainly plastic. I don't think recycling would accept them (I suppose I could leave one out and ask). Sort of thing charity shops might want but they do always seem to have loads of them.

I find it strange that the council don't seem to accept engineering plastics, they must not be able to recycle them.
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Are they plastic with a metal hook? Recycling don't like mixed materials. The metal probably knackers the shredding machine.
 
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