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Recycling Centres Opening hours Caithness
Seater Landfill Site Monday – Friday 8.00
am – 4.00 pm Materials Accepted Thurso
Recycling Centre By Thurso Caithness Summer Winter N.B Please note that the Recycling Centre will be closed for lunch each day from 2.00pm - 2.30pm Materials Accepted Furniture and household goods (including bric-a-brac) can donated to Homeaid Caithness for reuse. Please contact Homeaid Caithness directly on 01847 890696 or email [email protected] No commercial waste is accepted
Wick Recycling Centre Summer Winter
N.B Please note that the Recycling Centre will be closed for lunch each day from 2.00pm - 2.30pm Materials Accepted Furniture and household goods (including bric-a-brac) can donated to Homeaid Caithness for reuse. Please contact Homeaid Caithness directly on 01847 890696 or email [email protected] No commercial waste is accepted See Also |
10 July 08 Type 1 bottles (PET) are mainly used for fizzy drinks and type 2 (HDPE) are used as milk cartons or for detergents. The Council urges evryone to try and make sure only bottles marked 1 and 2 are deposited in the banks as other plastics will contaminate the load, this may lead to a need to dispose of the materials rather than recycling them. Chairman of TECS services, Councillor John Laing welcomed the new service introduced on 1 July giving Highlanders an opportunity to recycle a lot of their plastic waste. He said: “In Highland we use around 50 million plastic bottles a year but now everyone has the opportunity to improve their environment. Approximately 25,000 empty plastic bottles weigh a tonne and research shows that by recycling 1 tonne of plastic we are able to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5. Householders across the Highlands have been asking us for some time now to introduce plastic waste recycling so I am sure this new service will be popular. “The Highland Council has greatly improved the recycling infrastructure throughout Highland over the last few years. The introduction of kerbside recycling to 70 % of households and an increase in Recycling Points and Centres have enabled the public to play an enormous part in improving the recycling rate from just a few percent a couple of years ago to just over 30% in the last year. On behalf of the Council I thank everyone for this incredible effort. The introduction of plastic recycling will now give residents the chance to recycle the last major element of the waste that is found in their dustbin.” The Council’s waste analysis identified that, while plastic bottles only make up about 2% of the weight of the waste in a wheelie bin, they do take up quite a bit of space. The average household in the UK use 500 plastic bottles a year most of which are PET or HDPE http://www.recoup.org.uk For more information on how the Council can help you improve your environment you can visit www.highland.gov.uk/recycle or phone 01349 868439.To find out more about plastic recycling you can visit www.recoup.org.uk In the UK... General 30 May 06 From April to September the recycling centre will change open two hours earlier on Friday and Saturday mornings. The new times are: Sunday to Thursday 1100hrs to 1700 and Friday and Saturday 0900hrs to 1800hrs, with a daily closure for lunch from 14.00hrs to 14.30hrs. During the winter months the Centre will be open seven days a week from 1100hrs to 1600hrs. The Recycling Centres take cans, car batteries, cardboard, electrical appliances, engine oil, garden waste, paper, rubble and soil, scrap metal, textiles, tyres and white good. They also have an area on their sites for people to take furniture and household goods (bric-a-brac) which will be passed on to Home-aid Caithness for reuse. As well as opening two new recycling centres in Caithness, and introduction kerbside collections of paper, tins, cans and garden waste in Wick and Thurso, many of the outlying villages have now got facilities to recycle glass, paper and textiles. Since these additional recycling facilities have been available in Halkirk, Castletown and Lybster, including a green waste collection in Halkirk, the tonnage collected from the community skips in these villages has been steadily reducing. At the meeting a decision was made to withdraw these community skips, however, the free collection of bulky household waste is still available for householders to use. 30 March 06 10
January 06 Councillor Bill Fulton, the Council’s spokesperson for Waste Management said: "Over the last year there have been major investment in the recycling infrastructure and to date the support from the public has been terrific. However, as the amount of waste we produce steadily increases there is no room for complacency if the current success is to be continued." In 2005 The Highland Council opened four new Recycling Centres in Thurso, Wick, Dingwall and Nairn, and a number of other sites have been upgraded including major renovations at Henderson Drive in Inverness. Overall the Recycling Centres are exceeding their target, over 7000 tonnes in the first half of 2005/6, however there’s still room for improvement. The Council is currently expanding the number of Recycling Points in the region and so far have deployed about 170 out of a target of 200. All of these sites currently take glass, most take paper and cans and in the future the hope is to have textile banks at as many as possible. Although these sites are slightly underperforming, only hitting 2400 tonnes out of a target of 2475 (97%) there is still room for a vast improvement. There are around 8000 tonnes of glass present in the household waste stream in Highland and currently only about 50% of this glass is made available for the Highland Council to send for reprocessing. Kerbside recycling provided to about 46,500 houses gives the householder the opportunity to address their waste on two fronts, green waste in their brown bin and paper and tins/cans in their blue box. Green waste collections have surpassed all expectations. This is great news in the fight to reduce green house gas emissions caused by biodegradable material going to landfill. However, the blue box collection tells a different story. While the amount of paper collected is just under target at about 87% of the expected tonnage , the amount of food tins and drinks cans collected is disappointing. The collection is currently only recovering 15% of the expected tonnage. Councillor Fulton said: "While the overall picture is one of success and we have the real possibility of reaching our recycling rate of 17.6% by April, the amount of waste we all create is growing and therefore the amount of materials we need to recycle to maintain this success is growing. Christmas is a time when we buy more, eat more and drink more than usual. Approximately 40,000 tonnes of Aluminium is thrown away in the UK and we creating approximately 30% more waste over the holiday period, the majority of which normally ends up in landfill. Up to 60% of the waste that is thrown away could be recycled or composted. "It is also estimated that for every tonne of waste produced in our homes, five tonnes has already been produced in manufacturing and 10 tonnes at the point where the raw material was extracted. So before congratulating ourselves on what we have already done, lets all have a think about what we can do in the future." 19
December 05 The Highland Council's Spokesman for Waste Management, Councillor Bill Fulton said: "This Christmas why not make a special effort to try and reduce the amount of waste that is sent to landfill by using the improved recycling facilities in Caithness provided by The Highland Council?" The Recycling Centres in Thurso and Wick will be open as usual apart from closing all day of 25-27 December and the 1-4 January. Apart from these dates, the Thurso Centre will be open seven days a week from 11am-4.00pm over the holidays and Wick will be open Sundays from 11.00am ~ 5.00pm and then from Thursday to Saturday from 11.00am to 8.00pm. Both Centres will accept your extra cardboard packaging, old real Christmas trees, Christmas cards, paper wrapping paper (plastic & foil based paper cannot be recycled), tins, cans, glass bottles & jars for recycling. There are also 13 Recycling Points throughout Caithness including several new sites at Thrumster, Watten and Dunbeath. All these sites have been upgraded to accept paper (including paper wrapping paper and Christmas cards), tins, cans and glass bottles & jars for recycling. If you have a Kerbside Recycling collection from your property don't forget to recycle your Christmas cards, paper wrapping paper, extra food tins and drink cans using your recycling box after Christmas. Old real Christmas trees can also be put out in your brown bin but please make sure they are cut into easy to manage pieces and put in the bin. Councillor Bill Fulton added: "Instead of throwing away all your vegetable and fruit peeling, start your own compost heap this Christmas and by this time next year, you will have free, nutritious compost to help make your garden flourish. Also last years old toys and unwanted gifts can be donated to your local charity shop rather than throwing them away as there is sure to be someone who will appreciate them." For more information about waste minimisation and recycling or to find your nearest Recycling Point please call 01349 868439, visit www.highland.gov.uk or email [email protected] 14
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