Transcript Waste Management

Waste Management
Did you know?
*Over 100,000 tonnes of household waste is produced each
year in Nottingham alone?
*Composting organic material would reduce household waste
by 32%?
What’s in the average bin?
23% Paper & Card
9% Plastic
3% Textiles
6% Glass
4% Metal
21% Garden Waste
22% Kitchen Waste
1% Wood
8% Miscellaneous
3% Fines
Currently, most
domestic waste
ends up in landfill
sites
This reliance on landfill is, however, unsustainable for the
following reasons:
• There are already parts of England and Wales struggling to
find suitable landfill sites. This shortage of space will become
more acute if the amount of waste continues to grow.
Communities are often violently opposed to the creation of
any new sites (NIMBY principle).
• When biodegradable waste, such as food, decomposes it
releases methane which, as a greenhouse gas, contributes to
global warming. It is also explosive.
• Chemicals and heavy metals can pollute the soil and
groundwater. Leachate, produced from organic waste, breaks
down causing the same problem.
Last year just over
half of the City's
waste was burnt at
the Eastcroft
Incinerator on
London Road.
The resulting steam is used to
supply parts of the City with
heating. In addition any excess
is used to generate electricity,
which is sold back to the
National Grid.
Top Tips for recycling
Did you know you could re-use or recycle around 60% of
your rubbish?
Reduce
•Buy
second hand items
Re-use
•Get
broken
items
repaired
Use
the item
again
for a different purpose. Give away
•Buying
in bulk
to save
onclothes
unwanted
packaging
furniture,
books,
toys,
and
bric-a-brac etc. to
Recycle
•Refuse
excess
packaging
e.g.
carrier
bags
charity
shops,
local
scout
and
guide
groups
or church
Raw materials can be used to make new
things.
Take
•Create
demand
for
recycling
by
buying
items
that
contain
a
groups
for
reuse
or
resale
for
fundraising.
metals, plastics, glass, paper, card, fabric and garden
high percentage of recycled material.
waste to recycling points or household recycling
centres.
Waste Management Options
• Producers could think more carefully about
the lifespan of goods and about how much
packaging is essential.
• Consumers could consider the issues of
packaging and lifespan when making
purchasing decisions.
• Recycling goods such as glass
bottles and paper.
• Composting biodegradable waste
for use as fertiliser.
• Incineration (burning) of waste and
collecting electricity and sometimes
heat from it.
• Bring-back schemes
where containers
are refilled - such as milk
bottles.
• Refurbishing/
reconditioning goods to
extend their useful life.
• Used goods being put
to another use
rather than being
thrown out - e.g.
plastic bags being used
as bin liners and
old clothes being used as
cleaning cloths.
• Charity shops
providing a place for
goods to be passed on to
new owners.
Waste is put into a hole, which can be
natural or the result of quarrying, or used
to make artificial hills.
Dear Resident
Kerbside Recycling and Refuse Collection Service
From April 2005 your refuse collection service is
being modified to include a kerbside recycling
service. We are doing this in order to make it
easier for residents to recycle their waste, protect
the environment and ultimately reduce the waste
in Nottingham.
You will have received a new brown wheeled bin
and paper/cardboard collection bag, together
with this booklet. This booklet covers areas such
as how the scheme works, how to contact us,
common questions answered and what happens
to waste in Nottingham.
There is also a collection calendar for the coming
year. There is a space to write your house number
on and this can be stuck onto your new brown
recycling bin.
It should be noted that the instructions included in
this booklet constitute as a formal notification of a
change in your refuse collection system as
required by the Environmental Protection Act 1990
Section 46.
We thank you for your help in participating in this
scheme.
Household Waste and Recycling Centres
The City has two Household Waste and Recycling Centres
that the public can use for household rubbish
North of the City:
Calverton Household Waste &
Recycling Centre
South of the City:
Lenton Household Waste & Recycling
Centre, Redfield Road, Lenton Lane
Industrial Estate (near the Showcase
Cinema)
Both sites offer collection points for
the following household waste
Bric-a-brac
Cans
Cardboard
Car batteries
Cookers
Washing machines
Garden waste
Gas cylinders
General waste
Glass
Fridges
Hardcore
Newspapers/Magazines
Oil Metal
Plastic bottles
Textiles
Wood
The site also deals
with the de-gassing
of fridges and
freezers
Garden
waste/paper
recycling
rate 37%
Expected
recycling rate
2004/2005 14%
Lichfield
recycles
46% of
waste
The city must
recycle 18% of
the waste by
March 2006 to
reach its
statutory target
set by the
government