tetra pak petition your council

Destined_to_be_skint

Hillingdon do as well, but not aerosol cans - I am lobbying them about this though!

Liney_2

Print_Screen wrote:

Our council Haringey, does, in fact they recycle pretty much everything. Plastic paper, cans etc and they collect from the door. After many years they have finally go their act together! :T
I just hope they don't ship everything to a 3rd world country for recycling though! :eek:

BTW Tetra packs were very difficult to recycle until recently. This is because of the combination of aluminium, plastic and card that is bonded together. But a Brazilian invention using gas plasma to separate plastic and metal addressed this problem.

I am with Haringey council they told me they don't do recycling of Tetrapaks when I phoned them. I am going to check again and see if they give me a different answer. Will post again here and let you know...

Liney_2

Just to clarify - Haringey Council unfortunately does not recycle TetraPaks. They are good and recycle lots of other plastic, paper, tins and food but not the OJ Cartons I'm afraid.

wishingonastar_3

Destined_to_be_skint wrote:

Hillingdon do as well, but not aerosol cans - I am lobbying them about this though!

our council don't do tetra packs, Blackpool Borough,

however they won't take aerosols in the recycling bin, they do acept them at the local household waste recycling centre. I save mine up with any other bits that can go there, and take them in once every few months. well worth checking if they do that at yours.

woas.

Spanner_Banana_2

Brighton and Hove Council don't, and in the past year they've cut the things that they collect to be recycled, so now I'm drowning in a house of plastic containers and carrier bags (and Tetrapak cartons!).

savvy

Southampton don't

vodkabarbie

Barnet don't - they've only just started recycling plastic bottles, and even then I have to take them and cardboard to the dump myself!! :mad:

Testee

First off I spoke to the recycling unit at Southend-on-Sea and they tell me they accept all drinks cartons including tetra-pak but they take them apart and separate the components (not convinced I believe them).

I live in the Maldon district of Essex and sent them the tetra-pak link for recycling (http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/09.4.htm). The reply was that it is expensive to collect and sort and the only place they have been able to find to recycle these is in Scotland so they are concentrating on introducing plastic recycling which as a percentage of refuse is a higher proportion and thus a more cost-effective type of recycling to introduce first. She has kept the tetra-pack information and agreed to contact Southend to see how they are getting on with their increased range of recycling.

In the meantime I am taking my plastics and tetra-paks to my mum who lives in Southend-on-Sea!

Moggles_2

I'm sceptical too. I suspect some Local Authorities are being economical with the truth when they claim to recycle tetra paks.

I do know that the plastic, metal and card that is bonded together has caused no end of problems for the paper-making industry.

As was mentioned earlier, there's only one recycling facility in the whole of the British Isles - Fife in Scotland I believe - that handles Tetrapaks. This is a national disgrace. We need to push for at least one facility in the South of England. Then we'll get somewhere.

ailuro2

Dundee,across the water from Fife, does not recycle Tetra paks, as far as I know.