Shredded Paper can no longer be placed in Recycle bin.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

WestonDave wrote: »

I stick mine in the compost bin - helps break up the grass clippings!

Same here. Our council (Teignbridge) recommends this.

EricMears

We've been using them to make 'paper logs' for our wood burning stove recently. A bucketful of shreddings plus half a bucket of water left to stew for a couple of days then pressed into a mould gives a 'log' about the size of a housebrick.

Valli

So OP you tell us things have changed...

earthstorm wrote: »

Our local authority ( Northumberland Country Council) have just collected our green recycle bin and they have placed a sticker on all bins in our street with a new list of what and what not to place in recycle bin.

On the do not list is Shredded Paper, yet on the do list is paper and cardboard.

so it seems that we can add papers/bank statements etc. that have out full name and address etc. displayed in the recycle bin so fraudster can rummage and take our personal details to commit ID theft, but once we shred these to protect our ID the paper cannot be recycled.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

And a very helpful poster made a perfectly valid suggestion

EricMears wrote: »

This was mentioned in a similar thread a few days ago. Apparently, shredded paper tends to jam machinery. No doubt your council have just changed recycling companies and the new one believe their machinery is liable to be damaged by shredded paper.

And you dismiss his comment out of hand -

earthstorm wrote: »

Our council run their own recycle facility.
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Well maybe they do - but they have changed SOMETHING.

How we put our recycling out has changed too, as they have gone over to new waste sorting machinery.

Why not ring them and ask them?

I compost mine, too.

In fact it's explained on Northumberland COUNTY Council's website - I assume this is your authority?
http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=11669

earthstorm

Valli wrote: »

So OP you tell us things have changed...

And a very helpful poster made a perfectly valid suggestion

And you dismiss his comment out of hand -

Well maybe they do - but they have changed SOMETHING.

How we put our recycling out has changed too, as they have gone over to new waste sorting machinery.

Why not ring them and ask them?

I compost mine, too.

In fact it's explained on Northumberland COUNTY Council's website - I assume this is your authority?
http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=11669

whens this dismissing anything

Our council run their own recycle facility.

it is just explaining a fact.

It would be nice of the council to inform households before placing a label on bins that can easily be peeled off and that the new items not to be added may already be in the bin.

I wounder how they are going to do this

Shredded paper put into the General Waste Bin will usually go to the Energy from Waste Plant to be burnt to produce electricity.

As general waste bins are placed in bin lorry and then taken to landfill.

compost bins are a non starter where we live.

vic_sf49

My council composts it rather than 'recycles' it; although I don't see the difference....aren't both methods recycling?

Have they switched to allowing it to be thrown in a brown (garden waste) bin?

earthstorm

vic_sf49 wrote: »

My council composts it rather than 'recycles' it; although I don't see the difference....aren't both methods recycling?

Have they switched to allowing it to be thrown in a brown (garden waste) bin?

no nothing like a garden waste bin. anyway pould not pay their cost for a garden waste bin for the amount of times they collect them in a year.

before they become a unified authority we paid 50p for 10 biodegradable bags which you placed out with recycle bin, but after becoming unified they scrapped the bags and instead you have to pay £23 per bin per year and for the size of our garden it is not worth it

Valli

They HAVE informed you - it wasn't retrospective; they've taken what you have put out today and from now on the rules have changed.

earthstorm wrote: »

I wounder how they are going to do this

Shredded paper put into the General Waste Bin will usually go to the Energy from Waste Plant to be burnt to produce electricity.

As general waste bins are placed in bin lorry and then taken to landfill.

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Well if you navigate through the site for your County Council you'll find this

and then you will see what happens to your waste! It looks like it doesn't actually go to landfill at all!

Valli

earthstorm wrote: »

Our council run their own recycle facility.
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No, it doesn't

Waste Private Finance Initiative (PFI)

In 2006, Northumberland County Council signed up to a 28 year waste Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract with waste management company SITA UK Ltd.

from the Northumberland CC website

Mojisola

vic_sf49 wrote: »

My council composts it rather than 'recycles' it; although I don't see the difference....aren't both methods recycling?

If it's "recycled" it's made into something else which could be recycled at the end of its life and that can happen several times until it ends up as such poor quality that it can only be used to make toilet paper.

If it's composted, it's turned into humus which benefits the soil but that's the end of its useful life.

earthstorm

Valli wrote: »

It looks like it doesn't actually go to landfill at all!

well since the landfill site is 2 miles from my location and that's where all the council bin wagons go then i would say yes they go to landfill. this is also attached to the recycle center both run by northumberland county council.