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Recycling Sites and Office waste

Each year in the UK we produce 170 million tonnes of waste. At least 80% of our waste is recyclable but 90% of our refuse goes to incinerators and landfill sites, which are increasingly expensive. These emit CO2 and methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and produce a toxic leachate that seeps into groundwater.

  Site
Glass
Cans

Newspapers

& Magazines
Textiles
Foil
  Brockham
 

Kiln Lane
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
 

Wellhouse Lane
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
  Dorking
  Council Offices
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
 

Reigate Road

Car Park
Yes
Yes
Yes*
Yes
Yes
  Sainsbury's Car Park
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
  Chart Downs
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
  Reigate
  Safeways
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
  Upper West Street
Yes
Yes
Yes*
Yes
No
  Town Hall
Yes
Yes
Yes*
No
No
  Hookwood
  Tesco Superstore
Yes
Yes
Yes*
Yes
Yes
  Newdigate
  Surrey Oaks Pub
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
  Burgh Heath
  Asda Superstore
Yes
Yes
Yes*
Yes
No
             
  * Mixed paper and card

 

Reducing waste in the office

Unwanted faxes can be prevented by registering with:

The Fax Preference Service

70 Margaret Street

London

W1W 8SS

Tel: 0845 070 0702

Computers up to 5 years old can be donated to:

Guildford Computer Exchange

Tel: 01483575744

Computers for the Disabled

Tel: 01268 284834

Computers of 5 years and over plus hardware can be recycled by the following:

Tilton Systems Ltd

c/o 27 Danetree Close

Epsom KT19 9SU

Tel: 0208 393 0198

 

AB Electrical
Clive.Kiley@abelectrical.ntl.world
Tel: 01252 656 796

 

AB Electrical also take fax machines, typewriters and other office equipment for re-use in Africa.

 

 Further Information
Contact Telephone

Mole Valley District Council

 01306 879190

A Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Mole Valley will be built in Leatherhead.
This unique project has been developed by Mole Valley District Council and Grundon Waste Management Ltd. to help the Council and the rest of this part of Surrey reduce the amount of household waste it sends to landfill each year. In 2001/2, Mole Valley recycled just 14% of its total household waste.

 

Targets set by the Government and the Council itself mean that this figure must be increased to 36% by 2005/6. This would be difficult to achieve without well-sited, local recycling facilities such as that provided by the proposed MRF.

 

The Mole Valley MRF, at Randalls Road in Leatherhead, will consist of a large, enclosed building capable of mechanically sorting mixed recyclable material brought to the site. This material will be sold to the recycling markets. The MRF at Randalls Road is expected to process 40,000 tonnes of recycled waste per annum.

 

Under the new system households will be supplied with two wheelie bins - a green one for things that can be recycled and a black one for things we can't.

 

The programme will be trialled Spring 2004 in a couple of areas before being rolled out across Mole Valley.
 
 
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