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Youth Event May 2008
M1 Widening Project Current Restrictions
Quick Links Buses Service 191 (new 07/07)
Local Websites
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South Wilford School The school has a paper recycling bin in the car park from which the school earns money based on the weight of paper recycled. The bin will take newspapers, magazines, catalogues and junk mail but NOT cardboard, envelopes, yellow pages.
Wilford Co-op Glass
Silverdale Community Centre Glass and paper & cardboard of any type
Compton Acres Shopping Centre Glass, paper, textiles, cans, aerosols and shoes.
Household Recycling Centre, Rugby Road, West Bridgford All household waste except asbestos, commercial waste and industrial waste. Telephone: 0115 981 1113
Opening times are as follows:
Asda, West Bridgford Glass, paper, textiles, cans, aerosols and shoes.
Rushcliffe Arena Glass
Green Bin or Brown Bin? Click here for the calendar of refuse collections. Confused about what can and cannot go in the bins? Click here.
What happens to the recyclable waste? Information received by Wilford Community Group via email from Eastcrofts
Neighbourhood Services in w/b 6th November 2006: “Plastics, cans, tins, paper and cardboard are taken to a separation plant in Colwick. The separated materials are then taken to various facilities to be reprocessed. Paper and cardboard is taken to Birmingham and turned into cardboard. Plastics go to Leicester where they are shredded, reground and made into kerbstone, decorative tongue and groove strips and artificial decking. Cans are crushed and sent to various foundries for melting into metal products.
Garden waste is taken to a working farm in north Nottingham where it is processed and put back to land producing crops. The clean material is shredded using a mechanical shredder and laid in windrows that are turned every week for about six weeks.” In
response to a further query: "The sorting of items is done by part mechanical and part by hand at our sites, that way the items in the bin that cannot be recycled are taken out. A windrow
is basically a large flat surface where we let the garden waste turn into
compost and turn it periodically.
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