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Despite efforts to encourage recycling at supermarkets - see above - often items get thrown away and end up in landfill simply because there isn’t enough local
"Where to Take" information. Here is a list compiled by members of the Forum.
Please submit your "Where to Take" ideas to Gruff Edwards (gruff.edwards@tiscali.co.uk) so that he can incorporate them into this section.
Scroll down to browse, or click on one of the in-page links below:
Used Plastic Plant Pots
Small batteries
Cardboard
CDs and DVDs
Tetrapak
Fluorescent tubes and long-life light bulbs
Plastics other than plastics bottles
are unfortunately no longer being collected for recycling at Wyevale garden centres, e.g. Great Gaddesden and Chipperfield. Take as general plastic to the Household Waste centre in Eastman Way (see below).
for torches, radios etc. can now be taken to the
Household Waste Recycling Centre, Eastman Way, where they have a wheelie bin designated
for this purpose. Please ask one of the helpful staff if you can’t find it.
Other sites in Dacorum that will take small batteries are listed below. Some stores will also take them - look out for boxes near checkouts and/or ask a manager.
Homebase, Apsley Mills Retail Park, London Road Hemel Hempstead.
Hemel Hemstead Civic Centre,
Marlowes,
Hemel Hempstead
Berkhamsted Civic Centre,
161 High Street,
Berkhamsted
Victoria Hall,
Akeman Street,
Tring
Card and cardboard packaging can be put into the DBC green waste wheelie bin. If you flatten it first it will take less room. A lot of packaging includes a transparent plastic window glued under the top of the cardboard box. However it is usually possible to rip this off and recycle the card and plastic (see below) separately. Cardboard casings too large for the green wheelie bin can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centre, Eastman Way,
where they have a skip designated for this purpose.
They ask for cardboard to be flattened, so it is a good idea to flatten boxes by prising
open and re-folding if appropriate, before setting out for the recycling centre.
If re-usable can be taken to a Charity Shop such as the British Heart Foundation in Marlowes. Otherwise take to the Household Waste Recycling Centre, Eastman Way,
where the helpful staff can point you to the area designated for this purpose.
Fold up and save as shown, then take to the Household Waste Recycling Centre, Eastman Way,
where the helpful staff can point you to the area designated for this purpose.
Take to the Household Waste Recycling Centre, Eastman Way,
where the helpful staff can point you to the area designated for this purpose.
Note: On 16/12/09 staff advised that long-life light bulbs were not collected separately, but went in general waste. However, keep asking.
Although plastic food trays such as those pictured are not yet separately recyclable in Dacorum, it is hoped that they soon will be, as they aleady are in Three Rivers via the kerbside collection system. Please lobby your local councillor so that we have this facility sooner, and/or consider stacking your trays as pictured for when the scheme is introduced here. As noted on 16/12/09 at the Household Waste Recycling Centre, Eastman Way,
there were separate containers next to the general waste skip for e.g. hard plastic mouldings such as discarded vacuum cleaner parts. Unfortunately this does not accept most packaging plastics. Please click on
Non-bottle plastics acceptable at Eastman Way
to see which types of plastic are acceptable.
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