Easy Ways to Recycle More

A Presentation by Dial A Bin – Waste Management Company

It’s important to first know which items can be recycled.

By knowing what you can recycle, you will be able to set up an effective home recycling programme for you and your family.

Various recycling programmes require you to sort your waste in particular ways – such as separating glass, plastic and paper. Once you have separated and sorted everything, contact a waste management company such as Dial A Bin UK.

They’ll transfer your waste to their dedicated waste transfer station in Brackley, where it will be sorted into recyclable waste and landfill. If you’ve been stringent with your sorting, this shouldn’t take long!

Recycling tips 1: Knowing What to Recycle

Recycling tips 2: Reduce and Reuse first

The first - and most effective - step towards producing less waste is by lowering consumption and reusing materials where possible.

In fact, reduction and reusing comes before recycling in the waste management hierarchy. This can not only help to save money but also protect the environment and save natural resources.

Try to buy items such as clothes and electrical goods second-hand from charity shops and trade-in stores.

Opt for reusable rather than disposable items and look for products that use less packaging. Additionally, buying in bulk can help to reduce packaging and save money.

Recycling tips 3: Composting

Minimise the waste produced in your house by composting – a process which can enrich your soil and act as an easy way of disposing biodegradable waste.

Retain fruit and vegetable peelings, food scraps and garden waste and keep them in a composting bin (which can be purchased for less than £20), where it will decompose. It can then be used as a natural fertiliser.

The use of such natural composting materials eliminates the need for chemical fertilisers and pesticides for growing plants.

Composting also leads to less waste being sent to the landfill, preventing harmful contaminants such as methane and leachate being produced.

Electronic products such as laptops and mobile phones are made of valuable materials and resources, such as glass, metals and plastics.

All of these materials require energy to mine and manufacture. Hence, it is important to either recycle or donate such consumer electronic products in order to reduce our carbon footprint.

Did you know that for every million mobile phones that are being recycled, 75 pounds of gold, 33 pounds of palladium and 772 pounds of silver can be recovered?

To reduce waste and save money, why not simply upgrade the hardware of your existing device?

Recycling tips 4: Recycling Electronic Products

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” – there’s every chance somebody else could want your unwanted goods.

So, instead of discarding your old belongings, try donating or selling them.

Not only will this lower waste production - you'll also be helping others.

Orphanages, churches, care homes, nursing homes and charity shops will gladly receive your donations.

Recycling tips 5: Donation

The office is a great place to expand your recycling efforts.

Usually, materials like paper and polystyrene cups are used on a daily basis. It’s important to have a successful recycling scheme in place to ensure that the large amounts of recyclable waste used are recycled and not sent to landfill.

Additionally, staff should be trained to follow basic steps to lower the amount of waste produced in the office. This may include using computer alternatives to paper, reusing envelopes, using green office supplies and so on.

Recycling tips 6: Recycling in the Office

Contact Dial A Bin

Address:

Falcutt HallWelsh LaneFalcuttBrackleyNorthamptonshireNN13 5QYwww.dialabin.co.uk

Telephone: 01280 733470Banbury tel: 01295 207720Buckingham tel: 01280 403055Brackley tel: 01280 851081Bicester tel: 01869 876007

info@dialabin.co.uk

For waste containers and recycling services in and around Banbury, Brackley, Bicester, Oxford, Northampton and Milton Keynes, contact Dial A Bin. These waste management experts can help you to reduce your carbon footprint and do your bit for the environment.

For more information or a quote, just use the contact information below or email info@dialabin.co.uk.