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Windy weather on recycling days can result in blue box material blowing into the streets. To help prevent blue box litter here are some helpful tips: https://ow.ly/HP1050Rehp7

BUSINESS OWNERS! Have your say on how we can work together to reduce rubbish across our county, but taking the survey linked below!

In reference to my question last week, “What material is the largest contaminate in our recycling facility”, the answer is Plastic Bags. 🛍️ This may be a surprise to most of you as we see plastic bags everywhere, whether it is at our local supermarket or retail store. What makes them so problematic in our recycling facility? ♻️ 1. Tangling & Wrapping. Plastic Bags tend to wrap around our sorting equipment in our facility and have to be manually cut out by Penn Waste personnel, which also puts our employees at a safety risk. (Reminder 🚨: Safety is our #1 Priority)This can lead to mechanical issues and breakdowns, that disrupt the sorting process. The machinery is designed to handle larger and more ridged items, so the flexible and lightweight nature of plastic bags make them prone to tangling. 2. Manual Sorting Difficulty Plastic bags are very challenging to sort manually. These plastic bags are sorted on Table 1 of our recycling facility, coming directly from our tipping floor up a conveyor belt system. The bags are very thin and flexible making them hard to distinguish and handle effectively. 3. Contamination Plastic bags can easily trap and retain other marie rails such as food residue, liquids, or other small particles of glass or metal. This makes it challenging to recycle the bags themselves as they can contaminate other recyclable materials in the sorting process. Although plastic bags are problematic in our regular recycling bins, there are many alternative methods to ensure they are managed and disposed of properly. Here are some options. 1. Dispose of in your regular trash 2. Reuse - consider repurposing them for future shopping trips or household needs. 3. Store Drop Off Programs - many stores have specific drop off bins in their stores designated for plastic bag recycling. 4. Reduce the usage - consider using reusable shopping bags versus plastic. Here are our recycling guidelines below. I am currently working on incorporating them into my video, as mentioned in my LinkedIn Post last week! ♻️ I can’t wait to share the finished product!

When there’s no more life in your battery, it can still be positively dangerous…Throwing dead batteries away with other rubbish can turn them into rampaging zombies! Follow these tips to stop zombie batteries from causing fires at your local recycling and waste facilities Find your nearest battery recycling point at www.takecharge.org.uk Environmental Services Association

𝗚𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗻𝘀. ❗  If crushed by collection lorries, nitrous oxide canisters can explode and cause damage. Please keep them out of recycling and rubbish bins to prevent incidents. Remember, it only takes a small spark to cause an incident. If you’re not sure what to do with gas canisters, check with your local authority first or take them to your nearest civic amenity site. #safetyfirst #recycling #sustainability #fireprevention #circulareconomy

Waste and Recycling Workers Week is a great time to show your appreciation by serving those who serve our communities. Throughout the week of June 17th, join us in thanking your garbage collection providers and all those who work in the waste industry. Here are a few things you can do to show your support - Join the Recycling Effort - Let’s take some ownership for our garbage contributions. Consider ways you can reduce, recycle and reuse the things being thrown in the garbage from your own home. Call to Say, “Thank you” - It’s easy to complain when things are not done right. Consider calling your local provider with a word of thanks and appreciation for all the weeks they do their job well! Help Them Lift It! - Got a big pile after your spring cleaning efforts? How about meeting them at the curb and helping them lift it in. A little kindness goes a long way to show we are aware of their efforts. #SansomEquipment #WasteRecyclingWorkersWeek #Sanitation #PublicWorks #Recycling #Waste #SanitationWorkers #GarbageMan

Waste and Recycling Workers Week is a great time to show your appreciation by serving those who serve our communities. Throughout the week of June 17th, join us in thanking your garbage collection providers and all those who work in the waste industry. Here are a few things you can do to show your support - Join the Recycling Effort - Let’s take some ownership for our garbage contributions. Consider ways you can reduce, recycle and reuse the things being thrown in the garbage from your own home. Call to Say, “Thank you” - It’s easy to complain when things are not done right. Consider calling your local provider with a word of thanks and appreciation for all the weeks they do their job well! Help Them Lift It! - Got a big pile after your spring cleaning efforts? How about meeting them at the curb and helping them lift it in. A little kindness goes a long way to show we are aware of their efforts. #SansomEquipment #WasteRecyclingWorkersWeek #Sanitation #PublicWorks #Recycling #Waste #SanitationWorkers #GarbageMan

The Government published its response to the Simpler Recycling consultation today. District Councils' Network members remain concerned - there isn't full funding for the new measures Government is telling us to implement. And the implementation timeline is unrealistic. Here's what Samuel Chapman-Allen has to say about it: “The failure to follow the longstanding doctrine that new burdens imposed on councils will be fully funded by the Government means that already financially-stretched authorities are effectively being told to eat into scant resources desperately required for other services. These other services will inevitably be impacted. "“It is unacceptable that we are expected to overhaul our waste collection systems for households within a mere 20 months, and those for businesses within 10 months. The rule of supply and demand shows the dangers of every council being forced to procure new lorry fleets simultaneously – a longer timeline would help us ensure maximum value, both for councils and, most importantly, taxpayers." You can read the full DCN response here: https://lnkd.in/eAJp37ZN

Ready for an inside scoop on how TerraCycle recycles hard-to-recycle trash? When our TerraCyclers recycle with TerraCycle, their trash will always end up at one of our TerraCycle material recovery facilities (MRFs). Then, the magic happens… Once the trash is checked in, it’s sorted and cleaned before it is recycled into raw materials. Those raw materials are then used to make new items like benches, watering cans, shipping pallets, and more—giving hard-to-recycle trash a whole new life!

Happy New Year to you all. I am reposting this as a safety reminder to remove your fresh cut Christmas tree ASAP and take it to a local tree recycling center or bin. A dry tree can ignite in seconds. Remember to Work Safe Be Safe and recycle those Christmas Trees. For more original content, be sure to connect and follow. #worksafebesafe #safety