Recycle Week - See Where Your Recycling Goes

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Take a trip round Wandsworth's new recycling plant

Apply now for a chance to take a trip around the new recycling plant in Wandsworth on June 22nd.

The council has arranged the trip to mark Recycle Week. The first 20 people to sign up will be taken around the Western Riverside Waste Authority's newly-built Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), opened earlier this year by the Princess Royal.
 
The new facility means that all plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays can now go in orange sacks and orange-lidded recycling banks.

The visit will give a group of local people a chance to see what happens to their recycling after they put it in an orange sack or orange-lidded bank. The MRF sorts the materials, which are then sent off to be made into new products.  
 

• Paper is made into newspapers
• Glass bottles and jars are crushed into fine sand for use in paving
• Plastic bottles can be made into fleece clothing or underground pipes
• Cans become new cans
  
  
  Find out more about where your recycling goes at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/recycling 
   
  
  Find out about Recycle Week at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/recycleweek
   
  
  The trip will be at 12.30pm and will last about an hour. If you would like to go, email greenpledge@wandsworth.gov.uk.
  
  
  

June 6, 2011