What can be recycled?
Come collection day, someone’s got the chore of sorting the recycling and getting it to the gate by 7.30am. Every part of the city is zoned for collecting on individual days. The city council can tell you what your suburbs collection day is, just ring and ask or check their website, under recycling.
The bottles and jars are in a bag or box on their own. They’re clean, topless and patiently waiting with bare necks for the next life. Their top hats have been tossed aside, twisted metal caps have only the furnace to look forward to. Aluminium is recycled many times, including drink cans etc.
If they were considered saucy there may be an opportunity to revisit their plastic lids at a future date. Right now, their lids are considered non-recyclable along with the lids of plastic milk bottles.
Plastic lids can be recycled, so they need to be left off the bottles and jars.
The icecream, margarine and yoghurt containers can‘t be recycled as yet, but plastic milk bottles will be granulated and reused.
Plastic film is recycled, plastic bags are melted.
Disposable nappies can now be composted if your city has taken advantage of the www.Envirocomp.co.nz nappy composting system.
Ye old faithful tins have been washed and putout together, ready for recycling. The serrated or neatly sheared tin lids are shiny, clean and tucked safely inside the tins. Baked beans and peaches, pasta sauce or soup, pretty soon they’ll meet their old tinny friends and be on a train to the big smoke.. It’s the city of opportunity, where they’ll have a hot night, be smeltered and go another round or three. The glass bottles have an interesting after life. If colour co-ordinated they can enjoy a celestial tour of the giant furnace. They believe reincarnating as a wine bottle is the ultimate. Moet, Bollinger or Passion Pop?
If glass bottles have been casually co-mingled, they could soon be crushed and sent to the hereafter, blended with hard rocks beneath roads as silent substrate.
The most obvious of all recycling is the flattened and strapped cardboard boxes and cartons. Recyclers loves these bundles, scooping them up and squeezing them tight for a rail trip back to the mill.
Kerbside collection on your rubbish day means:
The bottles and jars are in a bag or box on their own. They’re clean, topless and patiently waiting with bare necks for the next life. Their top hats have been tossed aside, twisted metal caps have only the furnace to look forward to. Aluminium is recycled many times, including drink cans etc.
If they were considered saucy there may be an opportunity to revisit their plastic lids at a future date. Right now, their lids are considered non-recyclable along with the lids of plastic milk bottles.
Plastic lids can be recycled, so they need to be left off the bottles and jars.
The icecream, margarine and yoghurt containers can‘t be recycled as yet, but plastic milk bottles will be granulated and reused.
Plastic film is recycled, plastic bags are melted.
Disposable nappies can now be composted if your city has taken advantage of the www.Envirocomp.co.nz nappy composting system.
Ye old faithful tins have been washed and putout together, ready for recycling. The serrated or neatly sheared tin lids are shiny, clean and tucked safely inside the tins. Baked beans and peaches, pasta sauce or soup, pretty soon they’ll meet their old tinny friends and be on a train to the big smoke.. It’s the city of opportunity, where they’ll have a hot night, be smeltered and go another round or three. The glass bottles have an interesting after life. If colour co-ordinated they can enjoy a celestial tour of the giant furnace. They believe reincarnating as a wine bottle is the ultimate. Moet, Bollinger or Passion Pop?
If glass bottles have been casually co-mingled, they could soon be crushed and sent to the hereafter, blended with hard rocks beneath roads as silent substrate.
The most obvious of all recycling is the flattened and strapped cardboard boxes and cartons. Recyclers loves these bundles, scooping them up and squeezing them tight for a rail trip back to the mill.
Kerbside collection on your rubbish day means:
- Any paper and cardboard
- Cans – Aluminium and steel
- Plastics - bottles, fizz, milk bottles.Washed, squashed and tops removed.
- Glass - bottles and jars only - No other glass products
- Green, clear & brown glass should be separated.
