100% not to landfill

[solwisesteve]

How is it that my local council waste site can claim 100% recycled/not going to landfill? This is despite there being two huge skips there for people to dump 'landfill' items in to... what about the two tins of old paint we threw into these skips when we went there at the weekend? Are they going to be recycled?

[ViperStripes]

All incinerated?
All shipped overseas to be incinerated where laws on pollution are less strict?

[Ventura]

Doesn't a lot of the recycling end up in India and Brazil as they can't be recycled?

[seikopath]

Paint is classed as hazardous waste. In my area they have amnesty days for this. It goes into special hoppers and is then escorted off the premises under armed guard. Paint etc should never be tipped into general waste according to current rules and regs. Empty tins are fine. Hth. Dave

[demonloop]

They're probably in for a big bonus for getting 100%, so totted up accordingly.

[phil h]

If local authorities can they shred mixed non-recyclables and incinerate it to create energy.

[solwisesteve]

Paint is classed as hazardous waste. In my area they have amnesty days for this. It goes into special hoppers and is then escorted off the premises under armed guard. Paint etc should never be tipped into general waste according to current rules and regs. Empty tins are fine. Hth. Dave

We asked the lads at the site where to put it and they said chuck it into the general landfill skip. Water based paint anyway so probably not that harmful.

[Omegamanic]

They're probably in for a big bonus for getting 100%, so totted up accordingly.

Or they are using some kind of neutral system to offset the landfill against stuff that isn’t - I’ve seen some crazy assertions made on very flimsy realities.

[solwisesteve]

It was a few years back when I started to see these signs at the entrance to the tip. In those days they said c. 30 to 40% which I can believe. Then, over the next couple of years, it's got higher and higher and, for the last few visits, it's been at 100%.

[Carl.1]

It gets tipped out at sea.

[bobdog]

A lot of it ends up on SC.

[Brian]

A lot of it ends up on SC.

Steady on ............Ebay sounds more like it

B

[Maysie]

Are they saying the waste is:

(i) 100% recycled ?
or
(ii)100% not going to landfill?
or
(iii)that 100% is either recycled or not sent to landfill if un-recyclable (ie incinerated?).

I assume it must be (iii)?

[David_D]

Was at my local tip last week. From memory, they were quoting a 59% recycling rate. Given that they have about 10 mega skips of which only 2 are general waste, that’s disappointing in my opinion.

Trouble is too many people don’t appear to care!