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Go Green – Recycling in Westminster London / UK

GoingEcoGreen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:59:58 +0000

The UK produces more than 434 million tonnes of rubbish every year, but over 60% of this can be recycled. Recycling is not complicated simply sort your recyclables into the correct bin, bag or basket. This prevents them from getting sent to landfills with other rubbish, and allows them to get remade into many useful products. Every item recycled makes a difference! All the information you need to recycle in Westminster is on this website. If you still have questions though, call us on 020 7641 2000 or contact the recycling team How do I recycle? How you recycle in Westminster depends on what kind of property you live in. Some areas have a doorstep service and some have large communal recycling bins. Doorstep recycling: Westminster’s doorstep service collects recycling from your door once a week. You just need to collect all your recycling in you recycling bag or basket and leave it out for collection on the right day. Click here to find out if you have a doorstep service and when your collection is. If you need more information or you need a new basket or more disposable blue bags call us on: 020 7641 2000. What can I recycle? You can recycle all of the following items: Newspapers Magazines Junk mail including those with window envelopes! White and yellow telephone directories Flattened cardboard Computer paper All types and colours of glass bottles, but please remove the lids All types and colours of glass jars, but please remove the lids Drink cans Food cans Aerosol …

Recycle Plastic Products

GoingEcoGreen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:58:36 +0000

Plastic is everywhere. While it is a huge convenience in our lives, it also creates a major problem: how to get rid of it. Thankfully, due to advances in recycling technology, we don’t have to—we just need to be educated and committed enough to recycle properly. Recycling is really very simple; all it takes is a sense of awareness about your waste.

The Container Recycling Institute reports that 4.3 billion pounds of the 2 most common types of plastic were wasted in 2004, while only about 1 billion pounds were recycled—not to mention the 4 other common kinds of plastic we come into contact with daily. This means each person wastes almost 160 plastic bottles per year.

These staggering facts demonstrate we have a long way to go to raise awareness about the importance of recycling our plastic. There are many uses for it. Products made from recycled plastic range from clothing and carpeting to cameras and playground equipment, and scientists are discovering more uses every day.

Recycling is easy once you get into the habit. Make a conscious effort to pay attention to which bins you throw your bottles and containers into and soon it will become second nature!

Recycling Your Cell Phone Just Got Easier

GoingEcoGreen — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:09:28 +0000

While some cell phone companies are introducing convenient ways for you to recycle your phone once you’re done with it, a new start-up is making it just plain simple. EcoATM will be deploying kiosks at retailers around the country where you can drop off your old phone, have its value assessed and immediately get an in-store trade-up coupon or gift card.

The first of these kiosks has been stationed at the Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha for the last year. After great success with that one kiosk, the company is going install the e-cycler at wireless and big box stores in San Diego, Washington state and Vermont in the next couple of months. By the second quarter of next year, the kiosks will be popping up around the country and the machines will soon be able to accept other gadgets like MP3 players, cameras and laptops.

The EcoATMs have cameras that can detect damage to the phone and then come up with its value. If the phone is worth nothing, you can still choose to have it recycled and receive a free waterproof phone case and, for every phone recycled, the company plants a tree. The machine will also recycle your used batteries.

The company makes it beneficial to the retailers by installing the machines at no cost and making the payments redeemable in-store, increasing their sales. It also allows them to apply donations from the machine to their favorite charity.