What happens to everything that goes into your recycling bin?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by recycleboy

We do get a lot of enquiries about what happens to everything that goes into the recycling bins in Lewisham. Whilst we take great efforts to explain what happens to all the materials that go into the recycling bins, there are some people that aren’t convinced that a mechanised process can deal with sifting and [...]

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Visits to Bywaters and Closed Loop

Posted on January 3, 2012 by recycleboy

On 16th December, 2011 a contingent from Lewisham Council visited our new dry recyclables contractor Bywaters (Leyton) Ltd. The contingent included the Mayor of Lewisham, Steve Bullock, Cabinet member for Customer Services, Cllr Susan Wise, Executive Director for Customer Services, Kevin Sheehan and members of staff from the recycling team.  The visit to the materials [...]

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Why can’t I recycle ….

Posted on August 5, 2010 by recycleboy

A question we often get asked as recycling officers is “Why can’t I recycle certain items?”   In this posting I’m going to explain why we can’t recycle a couple of items that we most commonly get asked about – and what the alternative uses are for these items.       Mixed Plastics There are a couple [...]

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What happens to my recycling?

Posted on June 7, 2010 by recycleboy

This is a question that we often get asked, some people even ask if what they place in their green bins gets recycled at all!   Well the answer to this is … yes it does! Lewisham use a method called “co-mingled collection” for our recycling services. This essentially means that as a resident you can [...]

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