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is then exported to the are irrigated and turned
National Grid. regularly to provide a
good supply of oxygen.
Ash is left at the end After 14 weeks or more,
of the process. This is the garden waste has
cooled by water and then sufficiently decomposed
passes along a conveyor to be sieved and sold on
belt which removes any as a soil conditioner.
ferrous metals from it.
The ash is stored off-site Brown wheelie bins are
and is then screened for optional and there is
non-ferrous metals. Once a charge – full details
an external company has are available at www.
deemed the remnants worcester.gov.uk/
safe, it can be used recycling-waste/garden-
in construction. waste-collections

As you would expect,
the EnviRecover facility is HAVE YOUR SAY
fully compliant with the ON THE FUTURE
stringent requirements OF RECYCLING IN
of the Environment ENGLAND
Agency, which routinely
inspects it. The Government has
or which still has food and then either shred them set out proposals to
drink in it. Approximately to make small flakes or WHAT HAPPENS TO increase the consistency
12% of all the items put in pelletise the material. WASTE FROM MY of materials collected
green bins in the county Only then is the plastic BROWN BIN? for recycling from
fall into this category, sent overseas to be Worcester City Council households, businesses
and have to be disposed reprocessed into another runs a fortnightly garden and other organisations
of separately. new product. waste collection for in England. Increasing
10 months of the year. consistency in recycling
WILL MY WASTE END WHAT HAPPENS TO You can put all of your could help to reduce
UP OVERSEAS? WASTE I PUT IN MY compostable garden confusion around which
Negative publicity has left BLACK BIN? waste in a brown 240-litre materials are recyclable.
many residents wondering Any items which can’t wheelie bin which takes
if their plastic recyclables be recycled should go in lawn cuttings, hedge The Government has
might end up overseas. your black bin. After it clippings, leaves, dead also set out proposals
Severn Waste Services has been collected the flowers, old plants and as for introducing
only dispatches material contents are taken to many weeds as you can standardised food and
to UK-based companies – EnviRecover, an energy- dig up. garden waste collection.
and under the terms of its from-waste facility based
contract it must carry out at Hartlebury. Here the After collection your A national public
regular Duty of Care visits waste is burned and the garden waste is taken consultation is running
to any company which it energy released heats to the composting site until 11.59pm on 4 July.
sends materials to. water in the surrounding at Hill and Moor near You can have your say at:
pipes, until it turns to Pershore, where it is consult.defra.gov.uk/
The plastic processing steam. This drives a shredded and placed waste-and-recycling/
companies remove labels turbine – that in turn into long ‘windrows’. The consistency-in-household-
and lids, thoroughly drives a generator to temperature of the rows and-business-recycling/
sterilise the plastics produce electricity, which is monitored and they

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