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How are cartons collected?
Cartons are collected from the recycling bank using the Recresco
suction vehicle, the carton are taken to Swindon where they are
bailed.
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How are cartons reprocessed?
The cartons are taken to Swindon where Thamesdown Recycling bale
the cartons together. The bales are collected by Lafarge and
exported by road and ferry to Sweden. Once in Sweden the cartons
are taken to a mill and pulped where they are made into
Plasterboard. It is hoped that in the near future that a mill will
be constructed in UK.
How
cartons are recycled
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Are there plans to increase the number of carton
banks?
The current carton recycling service is provided to us for free
by the carton industry body ACE UK. As such they have given us a
limited number of collection points. We have been very successful
in agreeing six carton collection points, this is more than some
London boroughs. With a limited number of collection points, we
chose recycling banks that currently recycle the most material
rather than their geographical location as we wanted the scheme to
be as successful as possible. However we are speaking with the ACE
UK to increase the number of sites across the district.
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Why don't we recycle cartons from the kerbside in
the green box?
The current carton recycling service is provided to us for free
by the carton industry body ACE UK. If we were to pay for this
scheme it would be extremely expensive, our current recycling
vehicles have limited space to collect new materials streams, to
add carton recycling to the green box we would need to increase
council tax by around 2% plus the additional annual cost of
collection. We review our recycling services every year and so the
situation may change in the future.
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