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What happens to our recycling?

For most of us it’s a little bit of a mystery. We’re told to recycle and that it’s good for our environment – so we just do it. We clean all our jars, glasses and plastics put them in our boxes, wheelie bin or recycling bags and leave them to be collected. We have seen the facts and figures about how recycling has helped the environment, and we know of the EU 50% recycling target that the UK needs to meet in 2020, but still the recycling process remains a little in the dark. What happens to our papers, bottles… Read more

Neighbourhood Recycling Watch

Neighbourhood Recycling Watch: In Adelaide, Australia there are many things to be feared; venomous spiders, dangerous snakes and now… the dreaded sad face sticker. Councils across Adelaide are despatching inspectors to brand people’s wheelie bins and those who are found with incorrect rubbish in bins will be tarnished with a sad faced sticker. Recycling Police – Why? The council believe that by alerting residents to their mistakes it will educate them better. The aim of the scheme is not to embarrass or punish anyone, but to teach residents about which waste is recyclable and which is organic. The stickers started appearing this… Read more

#charityTuesday

As its #charityTuesday we thought there was no better time than today to take the opportunity to tell you about the difference that you, as our customer, have made. Since 1st January 2014 we have been raising money for Promise Dreams. A local charity based in Wolverhampton which makes the dreams of terminally and seriously ill children across the UK come true. We made a promise that for every order you placed through our wheelie bin website we would donate £1 to Promise Dreams. It may not sound like very much to some, but those £1 donations have quickly added… Read more

Birmingham has wheelie bin success

Wheelie bin roll out

Since the controversial wheelie bin programme, which saw 22,000 wheelie bins rolled out across Birmingham, there has been a huge increase in recycling rates across the city. Recent figures show that there has been an impressive 18.5% increase in recycling over the last year. Ladywood, Aston, Winson Green and Nechells were some of the first areas to receive their wheelie bins, now almost a year ago. Since then Bin Men have reported that they now collect more plastics, glass, tins and paper than they used to. And the statistics are there to back up these claims. Birmingham Council’s figures comparing… Read more