Secondary Materials
Learn about recycling secondary materials and what happens to your recycled goods after collection, from transformation to new product creation.
Building Materials
As any good scavenger will know discarded building materials can provide rich pickings, provided it is taken with the consent of the builder. Wood of all typ...
Mobile Phone Recycling for Cash or Charity
Today's mobile phones are designed to last for around 10 years – but mobiles are one of the most popular personal items of the decade and sadly, many peopl...
New Law to Promote Battery Recycling in the UK
New European legislation to encourage battery recycling should save millions of used batteries in the UK from landfill in the years ahead. Since February 1,...
Recycling Aluminium
In 2005/6 an estimated 5 billion aluminium cans were used in the UK alone. Most of the soft drinks we consume come in easy to use/easy to dispose of cans, an...
Recycling Batteries
Some form of electrical battery seems to be essential for our modern lives. Our increasing reliance on mobile phones, laptops, watches, hand-held calculators...
Recycling CDs
CDs have taken over the consumer music marketplace. These small circular plastic and metal disks along with their brothers from the film industry, DVDs (digi...
Recycling Clothes
It can be hard to part with a favourite but rarely worn jumper or pair of jeans but the huge array of charity shops in every town and city means that any ite...
Recycling Electronics
We are all involved in the revolution in consumer electronics, whether we have recently bought a new microwave, flat-screen television, or simply look with l...
Recycling Metals
Scrap metal falls into two types – ferrous and non-ferrous. Ferrous metals which are iron and steel are the most recycled material worldwide. In 2006, an e...
Recycling Tyres
Cars buses, planes – most of our transport systems rely on tyres. Most of our food and consumer goods is delivered by truck, hence our reliance on tyres to...
Recycling White Goods
This is the name given to a category of large domestic appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers. Due to media attention given to th...