Environmental Services
08 : 08 am |9th September 2010

EALING AUDIT TRAIL FOR RECYCLED GOODS – UPDATED OCTOBER 2008

WHAT HAPPENS TO ITEMS COLLECTED FOR RECYCLING OR REUSE?

 

Below is a list of the items we collect for recycling and reuse in your area, along with reprocessor we used and what the item is reprocessed into

 

DESCRIPTION

REPROCESSOR

REPROCESSING

Books

Oxfam

Resold via Oxfam Network

Cans and Foil

AMG Resources Ltd

Reprocessed into new cans/ foil products

Cardboard

Edwards

Cardboard reprocessed into similar or other paper/ board materials

CDW

McGovern

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

Cooking Oil

O’Hara

Waste cooking oil is reprocessed into environmentally friendly diesel fuel for cars and vans.

Engine Oil and Filters

Malory Environmental

Oil reprocessed into low grade fuel oil for generators etc

Florescent Tubes

Mercury Recycling

Mercury removed and glass and metal recycled as raw material

Fridges & Freezers

ACE Waste

Fridges are degassed and materials used for recycling.

Gas Bottles

Flo Gas, Brooksight, ACE Waste

Direct re-use

Glass (all colours)

O-I Manufacturing UK Ltd (formerly British Glass)

Reprocessed into glass containers

Green Waste

West London Composting Ltd

Material is composted

Household and car batteries

G & P Batteries

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

Kitchen Waste

Biogen

Material sent for anaerobic digestion.

Large WEEE, IT

SWEEP

Reuse where possible or separated and shredded into raw materials

Mobile phones

Precious Metal Recovery Services.

Reuse in developing world or shredded into raw materials

Paper

Aylesford Newsprint

Reprocessed into paper

Plastic

J&A Young

Reprocessed into various recycled plastic products

Records/CDs/Tapes

Oxfam

Resold via Oxfam Network

Scrap Metal

GD Metals

Separated and smelted as raw material

Tetrapak and Cartons

Bywaters

The fibre is recovered to make new paper products.

Textiles and Shoes

LMB

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

Toner and ink cartridges

T.D.S. Safeguard LTD

Direct re-use

Tools

Workaid LTD

Direct re–use in Africa and other developing world

Tyres

Days

Remoulds or shredded into surfacing material

White Goods, Furniture

Furniture Resource Centre C.R.E.A.T.E.

Refurbishment and reuse where possible, followed by materials recycling

Wood

Wood Waste Services

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

Yellow Pages

Raven Recycling

Re – processed via Directory Recycling Project