Squeezing more out of recycling with new Wokingham juice carton bins!
Residents living in the Wokingham Borough, Bracknell Forest and Reading can now recycle their empty juice, milk and wine cartons at several new recycling banks.
The Wokingham recycling banks have been installed as part of the re3 waste partnership in conjunction with Tetra Pak Ltd and the carton industry body ACE UK (Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment).
The new recycling points mean that for the first time ever, residents can take milk, wine, chopped tomato and soft drink cartons to the banks instead of throwing them into the bin.
The recycling banks are at several locations across the area, near to shopping and amenity centres, so residents can drop off their recycling when they do their shopping.
In the Wokingham Borough, the new recycling points can be found at:
· ASDA, Chalfont Way, Lower Earley
· Tesco, Finchampstead Road, Wokingham
· Sainsburys, King Street Lane, Winnersh
· Polehampton Close, Twyford
· Headley Road car park, Woodley
In Bracknell Forest at:
· Albert Road Car Park, Albert Road
· Sainsburys, Bagshot Road
· Waitrose, Yorktown Road, Sandhurst
And in Reading at:
· Milestone Centre, Reading
· Rivermead, Reading
· Recreation Road, Reading
· Palmer Park, Reading
Previously residents were unable to recycle their cartons at the bring banks but were able to take them to Smallmead Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Reading. The carton recycling banks will still be available at Smallmead for residents dropping off waste and recycling there.
Once the cartons are collected and processed at a recycling mill they are recycled into a number of different products, including plasterboard liner, high-strength paper bags and envelopes.
Wokingham Residents should wash and squash all cartons before recycling and only put paper-based liquid food and drinks cartons in the recycling bins.
re3 is the partnership between Wokingham Borough, Bracknell Forest and Reading Borough Councils and Waste Recycling Group. The partnership was formed to manage the waste produced in the area over a 25 year period
Peter Baveystock, Wokingham Borough Council’s waste and recycling manager, said: “Residents in the Wokingham Borough have made a tremendous effort to recycle more and more over the past few years and last year we managed to recyle more than 37 per cent of all waste.
“These new carton banks will make it easier for people to recyle their juice, milk and wine cartons at convenient locations, instead of having to go to Smallmead in Reading or throw them out with the household rubbish – which ends up as increasingly expensive landfill waste.”
The Wokingham recycling banks have been installed as part of the re3 waste partnership in conjunction with Tetra Pak Ltd and the carton industry body ACE UK (Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment).
The new recycling points mean that for the first time ever, residents can take milk, wine, chopped tomato and soft drink cartons to the banks instead of throwing them into the bin.
The recycling banks are at several locations across the area, near to shopping and amenity centres, so residents can drop off their recycling when they do their shopping.
In the Wokingham Borough, the new recycling points can be found at:
· ASDA, Chalfont Way, Lower Earley
· Tesco, Finchampstead Road, Wokingham
· Sainsburys, King Street Lane, Winnersh
· Polehampton Close, Twyford
· Headley Road car park, Woodley
In Bracknell Forest at:
· Albert Road Car Park, Albert Road
· Sainsburys, Bagshot Road
· Waitrose, Yorktown Road, Sandhurst
And in Reading at:
· Milestone Centre, Reading
· Rivermead, Reading
· Recreation Road, Reading
· Palmer Park, Reading
Previously residents were unable to recycle their cartons at the bring banks but were able to take them to Smallmead Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Reading. The carton recycling banks will still be available at Smallmead for residents dropping off waste and recycling there.
Once the cartons are collected and processed at a recycling mill they are recycled into a number of different products, including plasterboard liner, high-strength paper bags and envelopes.
Wokingham Residents should wash and squash all cartons before recycling and only put paper-based liquid food and drinks cartons in the recycling bins.
re3 is the partnership between Wokingham Borough, Bracknell Forest and Reading Borough Councils and Waste Recycling Group. The partnership was formed to manage the waste produced in the area over a 25 year period
Peter Baveystock, Wokingham Borough Council’s waste and recycling manager, said: “Residents in the Wokingham Borough have made a tremendous effort to recycle more and more over the past few years and last year we managed to recyle more than 37 per cent of all waste.
“These new carton banks will make it easier for people to recyle their juice, milk and wine cartons at convenient locations, instead of having to go to Smallmead in Reading or throw them out with the household rubbish – which ends up as increasingly expensive landfill waste.”
Wokingham Borough Council
<< Home