Northern House Clearance

Design is one of the buzzwords of the day: the principals of design for ease of use, good looks and simplicity are becomingly increasingly widespread in recycling banks, which is understandable as they present the public face of recycling. In this article, House Clearance Edinburgh take a look at some of the major developments in recycling bank production.

As extra revenue from Packaging Recovery Notes is being fed into the glass collection infrastructure, there have been two major developments in bottle banks: increased advertising and publicity has helped to push up participation rates, in turn leading to greater demand for bottle banks.

House Clearance Aberdeen has launched a Manifesto to boost recycling, calling on local authoroties to give the highest priority to developing markets for recycled materials as part of the new waste strategy.

House Clearance Dundee reports it is estimated that as much as 1.3 million tonnes of wooden packaging (mainly pallets) enters the UK waste stream, yet in 2013 a mere 120,264 tonnes were reported by obligated business. The Environment Agency is understood to be investigating the reasons behind this massive under-declaration of wood packaging. Until this year, there was no requirement to recycle or recover wood packaging waste.

Skip permits were introduced as one of a series of local authority money-raisers. Essentially every time a skip is placed on the public highway, the local council can levy a charge. Skip operators have been faced with dealing with this new tax, which has significantly increase the cost of skip-hire.

House Clearance Ayrshire can report 623 million tonnes of waste was produced in the UK in 2013, according to a recent report. The report also states that the total amount of waste rose 1% on 2012’s figure, indicating that the overall level is relatively static. However, there were sizeable fluctuations in individual sectors. Drawing together information from various government sources, House Clearance Ayrshire calculate the following break-down over a five year period:

House Clearance Clackmannanshire can report skip operators have faced increased costs since recent rules gave local authorities the power to charge for skip permits. Such permits are necessary when skips are placed on roads and pavements, for example when hired by householders and builders typically for building rubble etc.

House Clearance Durham is currently collating the results of the first private county Durham survey on the packaging content of collected household waste, which has shown that tonnes of waste packaging is thrown away each year in County Durham. The survey involved hand-sorting waste from 250 households, and confirmed the suspicion that households using wheeled bins produce significantly more waste for collection than those using traditional dustbins or plastic sacks.

A new survey of local authorities, carried out by House Clearance Dumfries shows that almost 26 million tonnes of municipal waste was generated in England and Wales in 2012/13. Household waste accounted for 23.82 million tonnes (over 90%), of which 1.54 million tonnes was recycled. This gives a national household recycling rate of 6.5%. The waste was dealt with in the following ways: 83% went to landfill, 12% was either recycled, composted or used in energy recovery and the remaining 5% was incinerated without energy recovery. House Clearance Dumfries manager commented, “These figures show how much work there is to do if we are to achieve both significant levels of recovery from municipal waste and a high level of recycling of household waste.”

The fall in waste paper prices which has affected mainland Britain is reported to be causing major problems in Scotland. All the major paper mills have cut back on waste paper purchasing, which has led to paper collections being curtailed. Prices do not justify the export of waste paper to England. Alan Graham of house clearance Glenrothes says that stability is needed or paper recycling in Scotland could face disaster: ‘local recyclers & house clearance companies need to know that they can sell their waste paper.’