Why should I recycle?
Which materials do you collect?
What happens to the materials you collect.
I've heard it goes to landfill?
Who is Cae Post?
What is Cae Post's relationship with Powys
County Council (PCC)?
Why you doing this and who is paying?
What is the purpose of this scheme and
what are our objectives?
What happens to the bringsites and the
community income they generate?
How the scheme will operate?
What incentives are there for me to be
involved?
How the public will be informed?
Most of the things we use can be recycled into something new. Its never been easier to recycle
- in just seven days, your paper could come back as another newspaper
- in just six weeks your metal can could be recycled and used as part of a fridge, a car, a plane… or simply another metal can!
- your glass bottles could be recycled into house insulation, and
- plastic bottles could be made into a cosy fleece jacket!
The
UK produces more than 434 million tonnes of waste every year. This rate of
rubbish generation would fill the Albert Hall in London in less than 2 hours.
(Source:Waste
Online)
Most gets dumped in landfill sites - but a lot could be recycled.
And when the possibilities really are endless why throw it all away?
Find out more about how you can recycle at RecycleNow! the national campaign
Paper, card, clothing, plastic bottles/bags and packaging (in certain areas only -see below), tins, cans, foil, batteries and glass bottles & jars.
WASH & SQUASH. Please rinse out your can, bottles and containers and squash them before putting them in your recycling boxes
We cannot accept bulky cardboard, plastic toys, fluffy toys, bedding, paint cans, large (5 litre plus) containers, metal scrap,contaminated food containers, metallic plastic foil/wrapping. If in doubt please contact your community catalyst or phone our help line 01938 570426. Shredded paper can be a litter nuisance at the kerbside and loading onto our vehicles. If you have large quantities of shredded paper please place them in a bag inside your collection box
We want you plastic bottles - HDPE and PET and your plastic bags LDPE . We know it can be confusing and frustrating for householders because our collectors will reject other plastic containers which may have the same recycling symbol for HDPE, PET and LDPE. It has been very difficult to find stable reprocessing outlets for plastcis other than bottles and bags and the majority of reprocessing firms will not accept these materials from us. But the good news is that as more householders are demand a solution for other packaking plastcis new outlets are beginning to emerge. In summer 2010 in a trial area in N. Montgomeryshire we will be extending the range of materials to include pastic packaging materials such as food trays, yogurt and margarine pots, clean wrapping material ice cream tubs and plant trays. Find out details about the trial here
What happens to the materials you recycle. I've heard some go to landfill
On average 95% of all materials that pass through the Cae Post Materials Recovery Facility are sold for reprocessing and return back to the product cycle. Our recycling output can be seen at view our Recycling Performance . Sales of these materials contibute nearly one half of the total operating costs of the plant. Reprocessing is now a global business. Most materials from Cae Post are now recycled in the UK. Some materials such as low grade plastics will be shipped abroad, especially to China and South East Asia, where so much of the world's manufacturing now takes place. These materials are 'return loads' in the empty shipping containers that bought the goods to the UK market place.
Around 5% of our throughput either cannot be reprocessed or is so heavily contaminated that it has to be landfilled. Quantities of spoilled bedding materials and clothing cannot be re-used and will be landfilled.
Cae Post is a pioneering charity and social enterprise, established in 1986 that provides work experience and training to people with disabilities and others disadvantaged in the job market.
What is our relationship with Powys County Council (PCC)?
We have a 15 year partnership agreement with PCC to operate the materials recovery facility in Trewern. The kerbside recycling rounds run by Cae Post have been set up with the full cooperation and support of PCC.
Why are we doing this and who is paying?
In 2004 funding became available from the Lottery to support the community sector in Wales to develop kerbside recycling schemes. Additional funding from Welsh Assembly Government was made available by PCC. Cae Post made a successful bid to these funds to introduce a kerbside recycling scheme covering predominanently rural households in NE Powys.
Substantial additional funding has also been secured by Powys Zero Waste who have now agreed to contribute significant funds to the Cae Post kerbside scheme. With the full cooperation PCC, these additional funds enabled Cae Post to offer a comprehensive kerbside collection to over 4000 householders. There are substantial advantages for PCC because:
• Cae Post will offer a service to households that do not currently
receive a kerbside service, thereby expanding recycling services in the county
• The service will divert materials away from landfill to landfill and
contribute to the authorities recycling target. This will reduce PCC’s
exposure to possible fines for not reaching the targets
• PCC will be able to rationalise its own kerbside service in NE Powys
which will result in further efficiencies.
In 2008 an annual contract to deliver the kerbisde service was agreed with PCC who now fund 100% of the operational costs
What is the purpose of this scheme and what are our objectives?
• The purpose of this service is to develop a model for high participation
recycling from predominantly rural households that is sustainable beyond the
period of grant funding and can be applied elsewhere in Powys.
• To achieve greater than 50% of household waste recycled
• To achieve greater than 80% participation of households in the designated
area
What happens to the bringsites and the community income they generate?
Bringsites in Powys are an important means of offering recycling for householders that do not receive kerbside services. By their nature, they tend to be used by ‘committed’ recyclers who are prepared to make the effort to visit the site. As a result, bringsites can capture only a percentage of the total volume of recyclables available from the households within the catchment area. Our service is offered to all householders and we are aiming for high participation and significant tonnages of materials.
As far as we are aware there are no plans to withdraw bringsites which already operate in many areas with kerbside services. We are introducing rewards and incentives for the local communities and household who particpate in the service and help us to reach our targets. Monitoring since the introduction of kerbside has shown that bringsites within the kerbside catchment see a reduction in material collected by up to 30%. However, the same sites have show a 'rebound' 2-3 years into the scheme, taking their activity back to historical levels before kerbside was introduced
How does the kerbside scheme operate?
• 7.5 t specialist vehicles fitted are used to collect from participating
households. The vehicles return to the Cae Post Materials Recycling Facility
at Trewern where further sorting and baling is undertaken.
• Each household receives 2 recycling boxes one red for glass, plastic
and cans, one black for paper and small card
• Boxes are fitted with rfid chips to identify the household and enable
us to monitor the participation and the weight of the recyclable material
we collect. This information will be available to each household so that they
can see how they are doing
• Recycling collection is on the same day as current black bag refuse
collection
• Each vehicle manned with a driver and loader/community catalystThe Community catalyst will spend 2 days per week working within the
community to promote recycling and answer householder queries
• The service will be used to provide work experience for adults who
have been excluded from the work place or or are trying to get back on the
employment ladder. Under supervision from our own support staff these teams
will work in local communities to encourage participation in the scheme and
help with local collections.
During the initial trial period our collection servcie was part grant financed we we able to offer a incentive to encourage householders to take up recycling. Our incentive scheme worked at household and community level:
Householder. Symbol awarded:
– bronze for putting out box each week in 4 weekperiod
- silver for putting out box each week in 12 week period
- gold for putting out box each week in 26 week period
Prize Draw – every householder with a symbol will be entered into a monthly prize draw with a prize of £100.00, winners will be chosen at random
Community
- To be based on highest average tonneage per household diverted from landfill
- Highest quarterly amount rewarded with daffodil/tree planting to value of
£100.00
- Highest six monthly amount rewarded with park bench to value of £250.00
- Highest yearly amount rewarded with school/community equipment to value
of £500.00
The scheme commenced Dec 07 and was withdrawn in 2008 when funding ceased. We have left the symbols in place to help householders see how they are doing
How the public will be informed?
• Leaflet drops announcing the service is on its way
• Road shows in target areas
• Talks to local community groups e.g. WI
• Door stop calling, every household trained in responsible recycling
• Delivery of boxes with further leaflet, tea towel and indelible marker
to identify boxes with house name, number and postcode
Each household is able to access a website page where they can view their own recycling activity.
We encourage community groups who would like to tour our recycling plant
to get in touch with us.
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