Environmental Services
06 : 11 am |10th September 2010

BARNET AUDIT TRAIL - UPDATED OCTOBER 2008

what happens to the items I recycle or re-use?

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REPROCESSOR

REPROCESSING

Books

Oxfam

Resold via Oxfam Network

Brown Glass

British Glass Recycling  United Glass

Reprocessed into glass containers

Cans  Foil

AMG Shardal,

Reprocessed into new cans/ foil products

Cardboard

Chas Storer  LTD

Cardboard reprocessed into similar or other paper/ board materials

CDW

Camden Plant LTD

Crushed/ screened and re-used as foundation material on civil engineering projects/contracts

Engine oil and filters

Safetykleen

Oil reprocessed into low grade fuel oil for generators etc

Florescent tubes

Wiser Recycling LTD

Mercury removed and glass and metal recycled as raw material

Gas Bottles

Flo - GlassBrooksightCALOR

Direct re-use

Green Glass

British Glass Recycling United Glass

Reprocessed into glass containers

Green Waste

Londonwaste Ltd

Material is composted

Household and car batteries

G & P Batteries

Separated into fractions and re–processed into new batteries or re-used as raw material i.e. scrap metal and plastic

Kitchen Waste

NA

Via in-vessel composting or anerobic digestion  for Category 3 waste.

Large WEEE, IT

DHL Environmental

Re-use where possible or separatedand shredded into raw materials

Mobile phones

Treehouse

Re-use in developing world

Paper

Aylesford Newsprint

Reprocessed into paper etc

Plastic

Pearce Recycling Newcom Distributors

Reprocessed into various recycled plastic products via RECOUP

Records/CDs/Tapes

Oxfam

Resold via Oxfam Network

Scrap Metal

Metal & Waste Recycling

Separated and smelted as rawmaterial

Textiles and Shoes

D. Robinson & Co

Direct re- use in developingworld or shredded to be made into Cotton felt/ wadding/ mops/ dusters and industrial wiping cloths

Timber

London Waste LTD

Wood is chipped and turned into mulch, animal bedding and sheet timber materials such as kitchen worktops etc

Toner and ink cartridges

T.D.S. Safeguard LTD

Direct re-use

Tools

Workaid LTD

Direct re–use in Africa and other developing countries

Tyres

Environmental Tyre Disposal(E.T.D. Tyres)

Remoulds or shredded into surfacing material

White Glass

British Glass Recycling United Glass

Reprocessed into glass containers

White Goods, Furniture

EMR Via DHL

Restore

Refurbishment and re-use wherever possible, following bymaterials recycling

Yellow Pages

Directory Recycling Project

Reprocessed via Directory Recycling Project