subject: All Waste Put Out For Recycling By Householders [print this page] ALL waste put out for recycling by householders is being recycled, says a county council.
The pledge from Denbighshire County Council comes after a resident
of the Horseshoe Pass, near Llangollen said he had grave doubts of the
process.
The man, who does not wish to be named, said: Since last year in
Denbighshire we have been asked to separate our rubbish for recycling,
putting cans, plastic and glass into white plastic sacks and paper and
cardboard into blues ones.
I am not usually at home when the waste is collected but I recently had a day off and saw the team call at my home.
The men picked up both the white and the blue sacks and threw them into the back of what appeared to be a crusher.
The two types of waste are supposed to be kept separate for easier
recycling but if they are crushed together how can this be done?
He added: A number of people I know around here have been wondering the same sort of thing.
The rumour is that the waste isnt recycled at all and is all thrown on to the same tip.
If that is the case why do we bother going to the trouble of keeping it all apart?
We could then take it to the PET recycling Machine points ourselves like we used to do.
A county council spokesman said: We can assure the resident in
question that the white and blue bags that are collected from his
property are placed in the refuse lorry and then taken to a plant in
Birmingham for recycling.
That lorry is specifically arranged to collect recyclable goods.
The pink refuse bags for rubbish are placed on another lorry and taken
to landfill.
PET bottle demand has been growing rapidly, especially since 1996 when 500ml bottle for soft drinks was supplied. In 2002, consumption reached to 430,000 tons, and 85% was for soft drinks. These collected PET bottles are processed to flakes or pellets by recycling plants.
Oude Technology contributes to PET recycling machine as a number one supplier of large capacity recycling plants. However, The market of current applications, mainly textile, was saturated in 2002. The volume of recycled PET is predicted to keep increasing, so, new applications must be developed. Applications other than textile use are necessary to recycle the increasing volume of collected PET bottles.
