Your handy update toRECYCLING

around the HOME

Recycling - what happens next?Once your recycling has been collected it is takento Severn Waste Services’ ‘EnviroSort’ plant atNorton, near Worcester.

More than 10%

of what residents put in theirrecycling bin is wrong

Recycle moreIf you have any other items that could berecycled check out your Household RecyclingCentres - find your nearest one by visitingwww.herefordshire.gov.uk/recyclingTo find out more about Envirosort visit: www.severnwaste.com/envirosort

Ways YOU can help therecycling process...

l Please only recycle clean and dry items

l Only place items in loose, pleasedon’t put them in carrier bags

l No need to squash cans and bottles

l No black plastic

l Keep paper flat and break large cardboard boxes into smaller pieces.

Cling films, container seals, crisp packetsand expanded polystyrene are NOTrecyclable, but they are light and easilymissed if amongst other items. They blow about at the sorting plantjamming up the machinery.

First the items are sorted byhand to remove the items ofrubbish that have been putinto the recycling by mistake.

Then the glass issmashed and fallsthrough the conveyorbelt to separate itfrom the other items

Next a ballistic separatorsorts flat items like paperfrom 3D items like cans andbottles which roll away.

Paper and card aresorted by hand.

Then the 3D items are separated.Magnets are used to remove thesteel cans from the conveyor belt.

Next optical sorters shine lightson the plastics to sort them intodifferent types and colours.Black plastic is not detected as itdoesn’t reflect light.

Eddy-current separators, whichwork like magnets in reverse, areused to propel the aluminiumcans off of the conveyor belt.

Lastly quality control check that thesorted materials are as pure aspossible. They are baled and taken toother plants to be processed furtherbefore they are made into new things.

You can Recycle all of theseiTems from around your home

from your BAThRoOm

from your kiTchen

from your Lounge

from your BedrOom

Remember the following items are nOTcurrently collected for recycling

Please put these items in your BLAcK Bin

X Plastic films and carrier bags

X Polystyrene

X Textiles

X Tissue and kitchen roll

X Biscuit wrappers and crisp bags

X Black plastic

If you are unsure of what items can be recycled visit www.herefordshire.gov.uk/recycling

Thank you for Recycling

Recycle more of your rubbishand give it a chance to be reborn.

For more information on recycling please visit www.herefordshire.gov.uk/recycling