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If we weren’t doing all the recycling we are doing now, we would still be using way too many skips for our own good. In fact we’re now probably using over 50% less skips than we were a year ago. This is obviously saving us plenty on skip hire. LSS Skips won’t be too happy, but I’m sure Ecoplas will be, and our accountant too.
Recycling PVCu isn’t the only thing we do. All the old aluminium frames we take out get de-glazed and taken to a scrap merchants to redeem a bit of cash. Again, not filling our skips, and making the most of the material we remove. Helps pay for the Christmas do at the end of the year too!
The only thing I think we are guilty of is our use of paper. We use a lot of paper, and we have massive stacks of old industry magazines that we can’t just throw away. We need a few of those green paper recycling bins. The amount of paper we just throw in the bin is criminal. I think I might appoint myself our Environmental Officer!
>Hi DGB
We recycle all our cardboard, polythene, paper etc and obviously all the PVC offcuts, scrap frames, post consumer frames etc etc. It's the right thing to do and saves you money on skips. Out of interest do you get any money for the frames?
RCG
>We used to, we used Dekura for a bit, but I don't think they liked coming to us, so we changed to Ecoplas, and the only way we get paid from them is if we take everything to York, which we're not going to do! We don't mind so much.
>Skip Hire companies do recycle the waste they collect though, If it is recyclable. I can't speak for all though, but I think it's better done this way than people dumping their waste somewhere else
>Hi Tom – We use LSS skips and they do what you'v explained. They recycle everything they can. We just don't skip the old PVCu, steel/ali and timber as we dispose of that ourselves. We have got our green paper recylcing bins now too!