How to increase recycling ....

[zephyr]

Recycling Jenny Wrote:

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> Specifically looking at carton recycling in

> Southwark, it?s great to hear that your scheme is

> so popular. The banks on the site that was

> mentioned are being emptied on a weekly basis. To

> help us deal with the popularity of the scheme, we

> ask everyone to squash their cartons before they

> recycle them ? twice as many cartons fit in the

> bank when squashed, helping to reduce overflows

> and also vehicle miles when emptying the banks.

> Jenny Walden

> National Recycling Operations Officer

These bins at Sainsburys on Dog Kennel hill are all taped up - and have been for sometime. Any idea what the problem is?

[Townleygreen]

Did you see this article in the Telegraph on Saturday?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3852372/Councils-dumping-more-than-200000-tonnes-of-recycling-every-year.html

It says councils are dumped more than 200,000 tonnes of recycling stuff in landfill this year.

Apparently the recession is at least partly to blame.

Depressing really.

[zephyr]

I have a huge bag of tetrapaks but nowhere to take them. Does anyone know where?

[PeckhamRose]

Address your question to Recycling Jenny - or email the Council [email protected].

Edited to amend mistake outlined below! Thank you! Then again to make the email link work. Hmm.

[ed_pete]

Assuming that the bins at Sainsburys are still out-of-action (as you posted above) then you could try PM'ing Recycling Jenny (who also posted above) as suggested by PeckhamRose though she works for Tetra Pak and ACE UK, not Southwark Council. Failing that you could email [email protected] or phone them on 0870 442 6000. Lastly, there's a Tetra Pak recycling bin in the Forest Hill Sainsburys car-park so you could try that one.

[Recycling Jenny]

Zephyr,

I've looked into your comment about the bins being taped up.

At this supermarket, there is a cupboard system with a slot on the front for you to put your cartons into. Behind the slot (inside the cupboard) there are two bins to collect the cartons that fall through. When one fills up, they are meant to be swapped over so that the second one can fill up.

The opening for cartons has been taped up because the supermarket were not swapping the bins around inside the main cupboard. So as consumers were putting their cartons in there were problems with overflow and mess. So instead, we have provided 3 black carton recycling bins elsewhere around the recycling area, away from the cupboard. Have a look in the recycling area for them, they are black with orange signs and should also have a picture of some cartons on them.

I hope that helps, if you have any more problems, you can contact us on [email protected].

Jenny Walden

National Recycling Operations Officer, Tetra Pak

[zephyr]

Fantastic - thank you for looking into that for us. I will have a look for those bins.