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Reduce, reuse and recycle A guide to recycling in Havering
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Reduce, reuse and
recycle in Havering
We can all cut down on how
much waste we produce by
remembering the 3 Rs:
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Cutting down on what you use so you With a bit of thought, it’s Recycling has never been easier or more glass, textiles and garden
have less to throw away not only reduces possible to use things again convenient. There are lots of ways you waste; how they are recycled,
waste, it saves money! and again: can recycle: and what products they are
recycled into.
• Avoid disposable products such • Reuse envelopes; • Use the orange sack collection service
as nappies, cameras, razors and • Use both sides of paper at home; Contents
tableware; and make sheets used • Use a local Reuse and Recycling
• Buy rechargeable items – did you on one side into a scrap Centre, such as Gerpins Lane; Paper & cardboard 3
know it takes 50 times the amount of notebook; • Use the wheeled bin garden waste
energy a single battery gives out, just • Donate old items of collection service, or compost at
Plastic 5
to make it in the first place? clothing, furniture, toys home;
• Use a ‘bag for life’ when shopping, and books to charity • Use recycling bring banks close to
rather than carrier bags; shops; where you live, work or shop. Steel & aluminium 7
• Stop junk mail – see page 3 for • Donate old magazines
details. to a local surgery’s Also, products made from recycled Glass 9
• Buy well made products which will last; waiting room; content are every bit as good as their
• Buy in bulk to cut down on packaging • Take unwanted stuff to a ‘from new’ counterparts, and can
– plus you’ll need fewer trips to the car boot sale – you may sometimes be cheaper. Textiles w
supermarket! even make some extra Read on to find out about recycling paper
cash from your junk! and card, plastic bottles, cans and tins, Green waste 13
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What about liquid food and drinks
How is paper recycled?
Paper and cardboard cartons?
The paper is sorted,
These are usually made from about graded and taken to a
75% paper, with the other 25% being paper mill. It is then made
Where would we be without paper? Well, plastic and aluminium. This means they into a pulp with non-
cannot be recycled with paper. There recyclable items removed
you wouldn’t be reading this for a start! Every are five recycling points where you can (staples, ribbons etc),
tonne of paper we use comes from 17 trees, so recycle food and drinks cartons – see screened, cleaned and de-
www.havering.gov.uk/recycling for a inked. It’s then ready to be
recycling it makes good sense. list of sites. remade into paper.
Paper Cardboard
How to recycle paper How to recycle cardboard: How is cardboard
• Put paper in your Households which have their orange sacks recycled?
orange sacks and we collected on a separate vehicle from their The cardboard is recycled
will collect it from rubbish can place cardboard out next to in much the same way as
your home. their orange sacks. All households can paper. It’s turned in to a
• You can recycle paper 95% of direct mail lists, significantly take cardboard to their local Reuse and pulp, cleaned, pressed in
and card at your local reducing the amount of unsolicited Recycling Centre. to sheets and dried.
Reuse and Recycling mail you receive. Contact them by
Centre. calling 0845 703 4599 or visit their What is my paper and
• You can take paper to website at www.mpsonline.org.uk.
your local recycling
cardboard recycled into?
• Not reading your free newspapers?
bring bank. Got enough pizza menus to last you Paper is recycled in to
a while? Put a note near your front newspapers, kitchen
Tips to save paper door saying ‘no free newspapers, towels, toilet paper and
advertising or takeaway menus’. stationery.
• If possible, set your
computer printer to What types of paper can be recycled Cardboard is recycled into
‘duplex’ – printing on
from home? boxes and packaging,
both sides of the same
but other uses include
sheet. • Newspapers and magazines;
• Do you really need to stationery,
• Brochures; animal
print out that email?
• Scrap paper? Turn
•
•
Office and writing paper;
Junk mail;
bedding –
and even
MYTH BUSTER
it over and use it for • Envelopes (even the ones with THE MYTH You can only recycle paper a few times.
shopping list. coffins!
windows);
• Stop junk mail – the • Telephone directories (including Yellow THE TRUTH This is only partly true. The fibres in the paper
Mailing Preference Pages); start to break down after the fifth or sixth time. But this lower
Service can remove • Thin card such as greeting cards and grade material can still be used to make things like egg
your name from up to cereal boxes. cartons, packaging, loft insulation and even new roads.
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Fantastic plastic!
How to recycle plastics
All plastic bottles can be
The different types of plastic: recycled in your orange
sacks. Please take the lids
Ever wondered what those little triangle and off and squash the bottles.
number symbols are that you find at the Plastic bottles can also be
taken to some recycling
bottom of plastic containers? They show what banks and to Reuse and
type of plastic the container is made from. Recycling Centres.
How is plastic recycled?
There are seven types:
The plastic is sorted into
1.PET – Polyethyene terephthalate. different types and colours.
Commonly used for transparent bottles – It is then either shredded into
fizzy drinks, cooking oils and cordials. flakes, which can be used What plastics can be recycled in
to create fibres for industry, Havering?
2.HDPE – High density polyethylene. Each of these categories of or it is melted and moulded Currently, we can only collect plastic
Commonly used for opaque and plastic can be mixed together into new products. bottles made from types 1, 2 and 3 (PET,
transparent bottles – milk, fruit juice and to form hundreds of different
HDPE and PVC), such as bottles for drinks,
washing liquids. variants. This is what makes What is plastic recycled detergents, and milk.
plastic so difficult to recycle. into?
3.PVC – Polyvinyl chloride. Commonly
used for cordials, toiletries, and cooking • Polyethylene bin liners
oils.
•
and carrier bags;
Plastic bottles; MYTH BUSTER
4.LDPE – Low density polyethylene. • Video and CD cases;
Commonly used to make carrier bags • Fencing and garden THE MYTH All plastic gets shipped off to
and bin liners. furniture, water China where it ends up in landfill.
5.PP – Polypropylene. Commonly used to butts, garden sheds,
composters and seed THE TRUTH There’s a huge demand in
make margarine tubs and meal trays China for plastic, and many processors
trays;
6.PS – Polystyrene. Commonly used to make • Fleece jumpers, jackets, there are keen to get as much of it as
yoghurt pots, foam trays and boxes. hats and scarves; they can. They pay for the plastic, and
• Fibre fillings for sleeping it’s delivered in ships returning to China
7.Other – Plastics which do not fall into bags and duvets. from the UK, which would otherwise return
any another category. empty. Having paid for the plastic and
shipped it to China, there would be little
point burying it in landfill rather than using
it to make new products.
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Super steel and
amazing aluminium!
We use loads of metal WEEE
packaging in the UK, but there
is some good news. Put a can
out for recycling and it could
be back on the shelves within
as little as six weeks!
MYTH BUSTER
How to recycle steel and aluminium
cans and tins THE MYTH Recycling metal uses
more energy than extracting the
Recycle your cans in your orange sacks raw material in the first place.
and we’ll collect them from your home.
Had a party? Got a few too many cans THE TRUTH Recycling aluminium
for the orange sack? You can also take drinks cans saves up to 95%
them to a recycling bank or to your local of the energy needed to make
Reuse and Recycling Centre. new cans from fresh raw
Please rinse and if possible, crush them material. The energy saved
before putting into your orange sack. from making just one aluminium
How is aluminium recycled? can from recycled materials is
enough to power a TV for
The cans are shredded, and any coloured three hours.
coating removed. The shreds are then
melted down, poured into casts and
chilled. The metal is then rolled out and
made into new cans. What are cans turned
into?
How is steel recycled? In as little as six weeks,
The waste steel is melted down into iron your recycled can could
ore and limestone. The molten metal is end up as part of an
poured into moulds, cooled, then chopped aeroplane, a car, a bike,
into blocks ready to be used again for or even back on the shelf
new cans, cars, and buildings. as a new can.
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Clear about glass What glass can’t you
recycle?
• Pyrex or similar. This is
made from a different
type of glass than
Glass is a brilliantly versatile material made normal glass jars or
bottles;
from sand, soda ash and limestone. First • Plate glass (windows)
used over 5,000 years ago, it can be used and mirrors;
• Drinking glasses;
again and again and again and again…as • Light bulbs;
long as it doesn’t end up buried in landfill. • Spectacles. Instead,
find an optician or
organisation that
How to recycle glass What glass can you collects spectacles
recycle? and sends them to
PLEASE DON’T PUT GLASS IN YOUR developing countries
ORANGE SACKS! • Glass bottles – all for reuse.
types, all colours;
Take your glass bottles and jars to a
• Glass jars – jam, How it is recycled
recycling bring bank or to your local
pickle, sauce, in fact
Reuse and Recycling Centre at Gerpins Glass is first screened to
pretty much every type
Lane. Blue glass should be put into the remove anything which
of glass jar you can
green glass banks. is not glass, before being
think of.
Please remove lids, bottle tops and corks. either crushed or melted.
Please give your glass bottles and jars
a quick rinse but don’t worry about
removing the labels. What’s it used for?
Most glass is remoulded
to make new jars and
bottles. Crushed glass is
used widely in the building
industry. Fully crushed
glass has similar properties
to sand and can be used
for a wide variety of
MYTH BUSTER
uses including new road THE MYTH: Recycled glass is worse
surfaces and decorative quality than new glass.
finishes.
THE TRUTH: Glass can be recycled
endlessly with no loss of quality.
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Be fashionable - at local markets. Stall
holders sell the clothes to
The textiles that are not suitable for reuse
are shredded to make wiping rags, felt or
recycle your fashions! their community, benefiting
the local economy and
packaging material. Wool textiles are often
pulled to make new yarn.
providing clothing at an
affordable price.
Green is the new black! Fashions What textiles can you
come and go and in a fast paced recycle?
consumer society, what’s in one • Clothes;
week is often out the next. We’ve •• Belts;
Bags;
all got stuff in the back of the • Towels;
• Hats;
wardrobe that’s never likely to • Soft toys;
see the light of day again so why • Curtains;
• Linens (no duvets or
not do something useful with it? pillows);
Recycle it! • Shoes (tied in pairs).
None of these textiles
How to recycle textiles need to be good quality so
There are a number of textile recycling don’t worry about stains or
bring banks across the Borough or why not damage – everything can
take your old clothes to a charity shop? be recycled.
What happens to the
All Reuse and Recycling Centres also
textiles?
accept old textiles.
Each item is checked by
Please place your shoes and textiles in hand with the good items
carrier bags and ensure shoes are paired separated from the bad
and tied together. as well as separating out
different material types.
Be careful who you give your clothes to! The reusable clothes are
Check the credentials of door-to-door exported to developing
‘charity bags’ before you use them. countries, to be sold at
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Be green with
garden waste!
If you have a garden, green
waste can make up as much as
30% of the waste your household
produces. Even if you don’t have
a garden, other ‘organic’ waste
can still make up a large part
of your waste. So why not do
something great with it? DID YOU KNOW?
What happens to green Each person in the UK throws away
waste taken to the around 194kgs of garden waste
How to compost garden waste RRC or collected by the each year – the equivalent of 2,800
banana skins.
Why not compost at home? It’s cheap, council?
easy, and you’ll be helping to improve Why can’t we accept Green waste is taken to
your garden. fruit and vegetable local composting sites
peelings through the RRC where it is composted in Home composting
You can take garden waste to any of the site or green bin service? heaps known as windrows.
Reuse and Recycling Centres. From here, These windrows are
it’s taken to a local composting facility Due to a law introduced watered and turned to aid Composting at home is a great way to
where it’s shredded and composted on a following the Foot & the composting process. manage your garden and kitchen waste,
large scale. Havering Council provides Mouth outbreak, any fruit plus you will have a ready supply of soil
a wheeled bin garden waste collection or vegetable matter that improver whenever you need it!
service. Please contact us for more comes from a kitchen and If you compost at home, you can also
information. therefore could have been compost:
What can you compost? in contact with uncooked • Fruit and vegetable peelings;
meat products, cannot be • Tea bags and coffee grounds;
» Grass cuttings; commercially composted in • Egg shells and cardboard egg boxes;
» Twigs and small branches; open air systems. You can, • Cardboard tubes from toilet and
» Prunings and hedge clippings; however, compost these at kitchen rolls;
» Flowers and plants; home. • Small amounts of torn up paper and
» Weeds. cardboard.
Find out more...
For information about local
recycling services
Call 01708 434343
Visit
www.havering.gov.uk
Write to DID YOU KNOW?
London Borough of Havering Over 60% of all
Town Hall
Main Road household
Romford rubbish can be
RM1 3BB recycled or turned
United Kingdom
into compost.
You can also find out more about
recycling in Havering at
www.recycleforyourcommunity.com
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