Where to recycle waste in Harrogate?
Recycle > Where to recycle waste in Harrogate?
While this is not the complete list we thought this would be useful to draw together information on where to recycle in the Harrogate area.
Domestic Batteries
20,000 batteries are landfilled every year in the UK - (Oxford Brooks Environmental Information Exchange) It can take up to 50 times more energy to produce a battery than it actually delivers. www.letsrecycle.com ... read all
Tetrapaks
Anything that comes in a tetrapak e.g. Juice, milk cartons read all
Starbeck Cone Exchange
The cone exchange is outside springwater school atnd they take buttons, corks, cans, reels, - then used by local schools /clubs as craft supplies andcollects reading glasses, mobile phones, toner cartridges, stamps and... read all
Paper
The amount of recovered paper used by paper mills as a proportion of their total output is known as the ‘utilisation rate’. The rate for the UK is 72% and one of the highest in the world. CPI – Competitiveness Study for Paper Related... read all
Electrical equipment
Electrical and electronic goods make up on average 4% of European municipal waste and is growing three times faster than any other waste category (European Commission). read all
Textiles
Wool – if every Briton purchased one item of clothing made from recycled wool this would save 371 millions of gallons of water, 480 tonnes of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an average family’s electricity... read all
Plastic
Britain uses 20 times more plastic now than it did 50 years ago. By quantity, most packaging is plastic (53%), followed by paper/cardboard (25%), glass (10%), metals (7%) and mixed materials (5%). Britons use 275,000... read all