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Recycling Information and Advice

I've been told you are going to start recycling plastics and cardboard - when will this happen? .
Do I use my existing containers for my plastics and cardboard? .
What materials go in each container? .
What happens to all the recyclable materials that we collect? .

Between October 2011and spring/summer 2012 we are introducing a new recycling service, which includes the collection of plastic bottles (not mixed plastics) and cardboard. This means a change to the containers used to separate your materials and we are changing the way that recyclable materials are collected from the kerbside of your property, using new recycling vehicles and equipment to improve the service.

We will be introducing this new service on an area by area basis. If you have received new recycling containers and information leaflets with full details of how the new recycling service will work at your property, your new service will start soon. If you haven't, please be patient! 

Villages	Date of first collection
Kirkbymoorside (incl Keldholme and Kirby Mills), Pickering, Thornton le Dale and Rillington	Week Commencing 21 November 2011 with all your kerbside recycling materials
Allerston, Barton le Willows, Barton Hill, Bulmer, Bossall, Burythorpe, Buttercrambe, Claxton, Coneysthorpe, Crambe, Crambeck, Easthorpe, Ebberston, Eddlethorpe, Firby, Foston, Ganthorpe, Gate Helmsley, Harton, Habton, High Marishes, Howsham, Huttons Ambo, Kennythorpe, Kirbymisperton, Kirkham, Leppington, Menethorpe, Scrayingham, Terrington, Thornton le Clay, Sand Hutton, Swinton, Upper Helmsley, Warthill, Welburn, Westow, Whitwell on the Hill and Wilton	Week Commencing 14 November 2011 with all your kerbside recycling materials

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New Containers
You will receive new containers for this improved service. It is important to put your recyclables in the correct container as the new, specially built recycling vehicle will only be able to accept them like this.

When you receive your new containers please start to use them immediately;

	the existing green box for plastic bottles and cans
	the new black box for glass
	the new, larger blue bag for paper and cardboard
	the brown bin for garden waste only

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Container	Yes Please	No Thanks
	Any plastic bottles from the kitchen, utility or bathroom Drinks and food cans, biscuit tins and aerosols	Yoghurt pots, plastic bags, polystyrene, clingfilm, food trays, pots, paint tins, cutlery, large metal items
	All glass bottles All glass jars	Window glass, crockery, ceramics, pyrex or visionware.
	Newspapers, magazines, junk mail, catalogues, other white papers, telephone directories, cardboard boxes, food packaging, greeting cards, kitchen and loo roll tubes	Envelopes, wallpaper, beverage cartons (tetra paks), polystyrene, plastic bags, clingfilm, and cardboard with food on it
	Grass cuttings, windfalls, flowers and plants,hedge clippings, leaves and bark, weeds, turf, hay, straw (but nothing that may be contaminated with dog or cat waste), small branches and prunings

If you have any questions about your recycling service and these changes, please email streetscene@ryedale.gov.uk or telephone 01653 600666.

Thank you very much for your recycling efforts which have helped RDC to recycle over 50% and hold the accolade as the highest performing Council in the Yorkshire and Humber region – we hope the new recycling service will help you to recycle even more.

What happens to all the recyclable materials we collect?

Materials collected on the kerbside recycling collection service are bulked up at a transfer station in Showfield Lane, Malton.

Materials are then delivered to Palm Recycling Ltd’s Materials Recycling Facility in South Bank, Middlesborough. Here, materials are sorted and baled before being sent on for use in various industries.

The information below is available as a Factsheet to download.

	Glass, goes to Ardagh Glass in Barnsley, South Yorkshire or Berrymans in South Kirkby W. Yorkshire. On arrival, if colours have not already been separated, it is optically sorted by high-tech machinery. Crushed glass (cullet) is melted down in furnaces and reformed to make new bottles and jars.
	Paper is taken to Palm’s Paper Mill in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Paper is mixed with water, de inked and pulped. It is then reformed to make new newsprint. The process is now highly automated, but similar to that of 2,000 years ago, where fibres soaked in water are drained on a fine wire screen and dried under pressure and heat.
	Cardboard is taken to D S Smith Plc, who operate a network of regional collection depots across the UK and have four mills: Kemsley (Sittingbourne, Kent); Hollins (Darwen, Lancs); Wansbrough (Watchet, Somerset); Higher Kings (Cullumpton, Devon). Cardboard is pulped and made into new corrugated board, or flat card, for new packaging.
	Cans are magnetically sorted by Palm Recycling Ltd, to separate aluminium from steel. Aluminium cans are baled and sent to Novelis in Warrington, Cheshire, melted down and made into new cans. Steel cans are baled and sent to SIMS Metal Management, the world’s largest metals recycler, melted down and made into new steel, for use in new cans, cars, white goods, building construction etc.
	Plastic bottles are taken to Palm Recycling Ltd, baled and sent to Connorco Ltd in Gateshead. Bottles are separated into their different polymer types, using near infra-red technology. Polymer types are PET(E) (Polyethylene Terepthalate) and HDPE (High Density Polyethylene). Bottles are granulated, heated, then re–extruded with other virgin polymer (of the same chemical type) to make new plastic products.
	Aluminium foil is collected by the Council and various local charities. Foil goes into a furnace where it is melted down and the liquid metal poured into a mould, producing an ingot. When cold, the ingots are sent to foundries where they are melted again, and cast into products such as car engine blocks and cylinder heads.
	Garden waste is taken to local farms where it is sorted for contamination, shredded and composted. It is mixed with other organic material and re-used on the farm.
	Textiles are collected by the Salvation Army. Good quality clothing is resold in charity shops, with a proportion going to developing countries. Garments which are past their wearable life are shredded and made into flock, for use in furniture upholstering, mattress filling, carpet underlay etc. There are companies in West Yorkshire who are engaged in this process. 95% of donated clothing can be re-used somewhere, somehow, by someone.