The "Top" textile recycling Collection scheme was started by the Osborne Partnership in Dagenham in a small area but has now covers the whole borough. To use the service, put your textiles for recycling in a bag - but NOT the orange recycling bag - and contact 020 8596 9999 to arrange collection.
At the green fair in Barking on 13 June special bag labels were being given out - but I'm sure they're not necessary provide you label the bags clearly.
Also of course there are bring sites for textile recycling, for example at Tesco's Barking superstore and in Salisbury Avenue j/w Greenslade Rd. The link takes you to a list of bring sites in LB Barking and Dagenham.
The following things are acceptable for textile recycling in LBBD:
Clothing for rewearing or recycling
Pairs of shoes, boots, trainers etc
Bags (hand bags, school bags, luggage etc)
Towels
Household fabrics (duvet covers, curtains)
But not:
Duvets
Blankets
Pillows
Cushion covers (!)
Showing posts with label Barking Riverside Recycling Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barking Riverside Recycling Park. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Friday, 2 January 2009
Recycling
Prompted by a questionnaire from GLA Member John Biggs, I've been checking up the latest recycling position in B and D. The council's website was out-of-date and therefore in some aspects wrong when I looked on Christmas Eve.
Yellow Pages
if you haven't got yourself off the distribution list for a printed YP (see http://stibasa.blogspot.com/2008/05/paper-yellow-pages-no-more.html) then you should recycle your copy. You can now put YP in the orange bags (the bags say "directories") or you can take them to Jenkins Lane / Frizlands Lane. The council website incorrectly said that YP cannot be recycled.
Fruit juice cartons (Tetra paks) and similar
John Biggs assistant told (wrongly) me that these cannot be put into B and D's recycling schemes. There is a eurobin for them in Axe St and also one in the Tesco car park not far from the Town Quay.
Plastic
John Biggs' questionnaire said that all plastic can be recycled. I'm told that's not true even in theory. It certainly isn't in practice in B and D. In an e-mail his assistant wrote:
"the orange bag collection can take hard plastics (eg plastic bottles), but not soft plastics (eg wrappings, yoghurt pots)". I'm not sure how you tell hard from soft plastic if yoghurt pots come under soft - also I'm not sure if plastic can be recycled through other routes; one of the bins near where I live is labelled 'cans and plastic' (or similar).
Carrier bags
Tesco's have a hopper for these at their Highbridge Road branch. The council's website doesn't mention this - perhaps because they only mention recycling that they provide. Bit silly.
Orange bags
The council's website has a page headed: Recycling, Orange bags, what can be recycled. This is misleading as it means "what can be put in the orange bags." They need to sort this page out. If we want to know whow we can recycle things that can't go in the orange bag, the same page should tell us how / where.
Yellow Pages
if you haven't got yourself off the distribution list for a printed YP (see http://stibasa.blogspot.com/2008/05/paper-yellow-pages-no-more.html) then you should recycle your copy. You can now put YP in the orange bags (the bags say "directories") or you can take them to Jenkins Lane / Frizlands Lane. The council website incorrectly said that YP cannot be recycled.
Fruit juice cartons (Tetra paks) and similar
John Biggs assistant told (wrongly) me that these cannot be put into B and D's recycling schemes. There is a eurobin for them in Axe St and also one in the Tesco car park not far from the Town Quay.
Plastic
John Biggs' questionnaire said that all plastic can be recycled. I'm told that's not true even in theory. It certainly isn't in practice in B and D. In an e-mail his assistant wrote:
"the orange bag collection can take hard plastics (eg plastic bottles), but not soft plastics (eg wrappings, yoghurt pots)". I'm not sure how you tell hard from soft plastic if yoghurt pots come under soft - also I'm not sure if plastic can be recycled through other routes; one of the bins near where I live is labelled 'cans and plastic' (or similar).
Carrier bags
Tesco's have a hopper for these at their Highbridge Road branch. The council's website doesn't mention this - perhaps because they only mention recycling that they provide. Bit silly.
Orange bags
The council's website has a page headed: Recycling, Orange bags, what can be recycled. This is misleading as it means "what can be put in the orange bags." They need to sort this page out. If we want to know whow we can recycle things that can't go in the orange bag, the same page should tell us how / where.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Recycling
A shoes and clothes bank is now in situ in Salisbury Avenue - j/w Greenslade Rd (by the footbridge to Essex and Suffolk Roads).
I'm told that fruit juice cartons and the like can be binned for recycling in Axe Street. I had a quick look at the council website to try to confirm this, without any success.
I'm told that fruit juice cartons and the like can be binned for recycling in Axe Street. I had a quick look at the council website to try to confirm this, without any success.
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
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