Refuse & Recycling

The 4 R's - Reduce

Reducing the amount of waste you put into your rubbish bin is the best thing you can do to minimise waste. YOU can do this easily :-

Things you buy......

Choose carefully what you buy at the shops. Lots of things have too many wrappers around them, when one layer would be enough. What can YOU do? Be a 'green shopper'. choose the loose apples rather than the prepackaged ones.

Junk Mail......
Does your family get a lot of junk mail through your letter box that gets thrown away? What can YOU do? You can write to a special address to be taken off the list of people the letters are sent to: Mailing Preference Service Department, Freepost 22, London. W1E 7EZ

Saving Paper......
Make the best use of paper. What can YOU do? Use both sides of the paper, make a scrap paper pad.

http://www.dover.gov.uk/recy cling/reduce.asp Refuse & Recycling

The 4 R's - Recycle

What is Recycling?

Recycling allows something that is no longer useful, to be made into something that does have a use again Recycling means using something more than once Recycling is different to re-using waste because the material such as glass or paper has to be processed to make something useful again

By recycling things such as glass bottles you are:

1. Helping to slow down the rate at which materials resources are used. 2. Conserving valuable energy resources, as often less energy is needed to make recycled things than making new. 3. Helping to solve the problem of what to do with all this waste. 4. Helping to cut down on air and water pollution.

Recycling Facts

Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for 24 hours! Recycling aluminium can save up to 95% of the energy needed to make it from raw materials. Compared to 50 years ago: o Food cans are 50% lighter o Yoghurt pots are 60% lighter o Glass milk bottles are 50% lighter o Plastic carrier bags are 50% lighter If all the aluminium cans sold in the UK were recycled, there would be 12 million less dustbins to empty each year.

Each tonne of paper recycled saves 15 average-sized trees, as well as their surrounding habitat and wildlife. (Source: World Wildlife Fund) In one year there would be enough waste to fill dustbins stretching from the Earth to the Moon. (Source: LGB Publications)

Recycling Points around Black box Recycling Scheme

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Refuse & Recycling

Black Box Recycling Scheme

Every year local council's are collecting more and more waste. Most of it ends up being buried in landfill sites, and the UK is rapidly running out of available and suitable land for this purpose. The Government introduced 'Waste Strategy 2000' which set every authority recycling targets to achieve in order to reduce the amount of waste and boost recycling. As part of the Council's commitment towards recycling and improving the district's environment, Dover District Council has started a kerbside collection for paper, cans and glass. Kerbside recycling is a far more convenient way for local people to get involved, epecially if they have no local recycling facility or their own transport. The new kerbside recycling scheme builds on our existing 'bring' scheme of recycling centres such as bottle banks. Each household included in this new service is being provided with a free black box made of 100% recycled plastic to store your recycling in. Please take care of it and give it a good home!

http://www.dover.gov.uk/recycling/blackbox.asp Top 5 waste tips

Effective waste management is just as much our responsibility as it is the cleaning or waste contractors. One of the best ways to manage waste is not to produce it in the first place! For example:

Reduce overall paper consumption by double sided photocopying, using "waste" sheets as scrap paper and using e-mail wherever possible. Remember, of course, not to print off every e-mail you receive. Scrap paper trays and notices posted by printers and copiers act as excellent visual reminders. When producing official publications, try not to over-order, or better still, consider publishing electronically. Amnesty Days tend to produce significant numbers of boxes of out of date official publications. Our own Environmental Policy and Annual Report on environmental performance are produced electronically. Participate in Amnesty Days. The key role of an Amnesty Day is to give up items that can be re-used elsewhere and to identify wastes that can be recycled. It is also an opportunity to raise staff awareness on how much waste is unnecessarily produced. Consider waste packaging as part of any procurement exercise. Suppliers are now being encouraged to recover and re-use packaging a number of times before disposal. As well as reducing the amount of waste going to landfill it saves them money too. Make the best use of the available recycling facilities to minimise waste. Contracts are in place to recycle glass, fluorescent tubes, paper, aluminium cans, plastics, toner cartridges, batteries, IT and electronic equipment and mobile phones.

As well as minimising waste, recycling cuts down on the use of raw materials http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/18823/15143 The 4 R's | Top 5 Waste Tips | Water Conservation | Green Procurement | Amnesty Days ] Use of resources results in the production of waste and, contrary to popular belief, there isn't a magical waste fairy that makes it all go away. Effective waste management is as much the responsibility of the person creating the waste as those who deal with it. The Scottish Executive is committed to reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and by following the 4 R's, everyone can help make a difference.
Reduce

One of the easiest ways of dealing with waste is not to produce it in the first place. By reducing our use of resources we are reducing the potential for waste production at source. For instance, by using double-sided photocopying wherever possible, or printing two pages to one side, we can at least halve paper consumption. Better still, by producing documents electronically we are removing the risk of using paper unnecessarily. The

Executive's environmental policy and annual report on environmental performance are currently produced in electronic form.
Reuse

Don't forget that we can reduce paper usage by re-using some of the paper that passes across our desk. Many people seem unaware that paper has two sides. Use "waste" paper for rough work or drafting minutes or to print off file copies. Keeping a scrap paper tray and putting in single sided documents for re-use is just as easy as throwing them out.
Repair

So often when something is broken the first reaction is to throw it away and buy a new one. If our television at home breaks, we don't immediately head off up the High Street to buy a new one, so why should we do it at work? If broken, it was perfectly good before so seek to repair the item before buying new, thereby saving money and avoiding wasting resources.
Recycle

For the occasion when something reaches the end of its useful life, the Scottish Executive has a number of contracts in place to recycle some waste types. Make the best use of the recycling facilities where available so that raw materials and energy are not wastefully used in producing new items. The Executive currently sends for reycling:

glass; fluorescent tubes and lamps; paper; aluminium cans; plastics; toner cartridges; batteries; IT and electronic equipment; mobile phones.

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Composting and anaerobic digestion

Main articles: Composting and Anaerobic digestion

An active compost heap Waste materials that are organic in nature, such as plant material, food scraps, and paper products, are increasingly being recycled using biogical composting and/or digestion processes to decompose the organic matter and kill pathogens. The resulting organic material is then recycled as mulch or compost for agricultural or landscaping purposes. There are a large variety of composting and digestion methods and technologies, varying in complexity from simple windrow composting of shredded plant material, to automated enclosed-vessel digestion of mixed domestic waste. These methods of biological decomposition are differentiated as being aerobic in composting methods or anaerobic in digestion methods, although hybrids of the two methods also exist. An example of waste management through composting is Green Bin Program in Toronto, Canada, where household organic waste (such as kitchen scraps and plant cuttings) are collected in a dedicated container and then composted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Management Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A subfocus in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials' effect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them. Waste management can involve solid, liquid or gaseous substances with different methods and fields of expertise for each. Waste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential, industrial, and commercial producers. Waste management for non-hazardous residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Management Litter Prevention CAPTAIN LITTER SAYS , "KEEP WASTE IN ITS PLACE!"