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All About Recycling

Invited to our August Speaker meeting was Wayne Roper, Bolton’s Recycling and Waste Prevention Officer.  Some of what he told us was familiar because recycling is now part of our lifestyle and plastis one of our obsessions, but he had some interesting points to make.  Easier to remember is the instruction “only plastic bottles can be recycled because other things are not made of Grade 1 plastic.” But there is no need to feel too guilty about such things as yoghurt pots because plastic burns at a high temperature and helps “burnable rubbish” to burn well and generate electricity.  Leave the tops on bottles because loose tops get stuck in the machinery – the sorting process will deal with them.

His description of what happens to our green waste was graphic to say the least – a video on YouTube (https://youtu.be/Ez3zrpuvXGW – will show you Greater Manchester’s green waste disposal facility near Manchester Airport. Excellent compost is created there even though the smell during processing obliges the staff to wear breathing apparatus!