Recycling Waste Locally: Bracknell
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- Recycling Waste Locally: Bracknell
- re3 is the waste management partnership that Bracknell Forest Council has with Reading and Wokingham Council
- 2 household waste recycling centres
- (1 in Bracknell and 1 in Reading)
- They have a one-way system and excellent signage to make recycling easy
- 150 recycling sites at convenient locations eg. supermarkets
- Clear directions on each council website
- 2 household waste recycling centres
- House Collections
- Alternate waste collection scheme
- General waste, Garden waste, Plastic, Tins and Paper are all collected.
- Other waste can be taken to the recycling centres.
- Cans (collected)
- Sent to Biffa Waste Management facility in Southampton
- There they are sorted and baled
- Then sent to European Metals Recycling Ltd in Lecicester
- Steel - melted and remoulded into slabs and coils Aluminium - shredded, contaminates removed and remoulded.
- New products - bikes, cars and new cans
- Sent to Biffa Waste Management facility in Southampton
- Paper and Card (collected)
- Taken to Severnside recycling facility in Maidenhead which is the recycling division of St Regis paper company
- There it is sorted, has contaminants removed, is pulped and baled.
- Then sent to St Regis paper mill to be rolled, layered and made into new product
- Taken to Severnside recycling facility in Maidenhead which is the recycling division of St Regis paper company
- Plastic (collected)
- Sent to Baylis Recycling in Keynsham
- Sorted by type and colour
- One type is melted then remoulded
- The other type is flaked then melted then remoulded
- Sorted by type and colour
- New products - fleece jackets and new bottles
- Sent to Baylis Recycling in Keynsham
- Glass (not collected)
- Residents take it to the recycling points and sort it by colour
- It is collected from the points by Berryman's from Dagenham and take to Yorkshire
- It is washed, crushed into cullet and mixed with raw materials to make new products
- re3 is the waste management partnership that Bracknell Forest Council has with Reading and Wokingham Council
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