Difference between revisions of "Waste and Recycling Initiative"

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See also: Recycling-Policy

This page explains how waste is recycled or deposed of at the space.

Waste collection

general waste can be transferred to the large wheely bins (Red) immediately outside the entrance on Roden street. these are collected every Tuesday and Thursday morning and is sorted by the contractors for recycling (check all this June 2019)

Recycling

Sorting the rubbish by material.

There is no organised removal of recyclables and is dependent on teams and individual members periodically removing the stuff from the space under there own initiative and goodwill. Nottingham hackspace encourages recycling, this can be the re-use of materials in the various materials bins in the electronics area and the main workshop, including for purposes other than for which they were originally intended. Anything placed in the Waste is fair game, including and most commonly, the laser and Wood offcut hoppers.

kitchen recyclables and waste

There are four receptacles in the kitchen for commonly recycled materials. Please optimise space in the receptacle by crushing and cutting stuff up wherever possible. Also, take care with messy greasy food cartons such as Piza boxes, which are not recyclable. Other items may need processing, such as labels removing and rinsing out for good practice.

Metal and workshop waste

Other materials can be weighed In at Scrap Merchants, again there is no formal process for this and is reliant on volunteers taking the initiative

Nearby recycling points

This map shows the location of the nearby recycling points (the closest is in Aberdeen Street car park, which accepts: mixed glass, mixed paper, tins and drink cans, and plastic bottles).

Notes

See also: Scrap

Materials are a valuable resource and waste is to be strongly discouraged. In fact, most of the Hackspace's resources are recovered from "waste" (and a lot of that by me! User:Msemtd). Even a small piece of scrap metal, wood, or plastic may be exactly what somebody needs for their project. As long as we know where to look -- we are a chaos-reducing organisation: sorting and categorising -- put wood with the wood, put metal with the metal!

"What can be recycled?" A surprising amount! Refer to the Nottingham City Council pages for those things that we can have collected.

I have a wood burning stove at home and it has no problem with pizza boxes! I'll take things away on those days I have transport.

I need to find out the waste collection arrangements with BizSpace --Michael Erskine 10:24, 27 May 2011 (BST)

I need to obtain/make a food waste collecting bin and arrange for its regular removal.

Aluminium cans are taken to scrap merchants to raise funds (enough to cover the cost of delivering them). There is a magnet wand next to the can-crusher which can be used to separate steel from aluminium cans.

Resources

The Nottingham City Council recycling scheme http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1286
The Nottingham City Council recycling tips http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1321

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 ==Recycling==
 [[Image:Recycling-area.jpg|thumb|Sorting the rubbish by material.|250px]]
+There is no organised removal of recyclables and is dependent on teams and individual members periodically removing the stuff from the space under there own initiative and goodwill.
+Nottingham hackspace encourages recycling, this can be the re-use of materials in the various materials bins in the electronics area and the main workshop, including for purposes other than for which they were originally intended. Anything placed in the Waste is fair game, including and most commonly, the laser and Wood offcut hoppers.
-If there are opportunities to improve recycleability (by pre-sorting, and delivering to a discrete dumping place) we should use them if practical along these lines:
-Simple rules: -
+==kitchen recyclables and waste==
-* if it can be reused, reuse it
-* if it needs special handling (Waste Electrical, chemical, sharps), arrange it
-* if it can be recycled, recycle it
-* if it can be burned (in a domestic wood stove), burn it
-* if it can be composted, compost it
-* anything else can go in the bin
-We have a container for sharps (stanley knife and scalpel blades, etc.) in the Safety-Weat cabinet just inside the door of the Workshop.
+There are four receptacles in the kitchen for commonly recycled materials.
+Please optimise space in the receptacle by crushing and cutting stuff up wherever possible. Also, take care with messy greasy food cartons such as Piza boxes, which are not recyclable. Other items may need processing, such as labels removing and rinsing out for good practice.
-WEEE needs to be accumulated and kept for disposal at local disposal facilities.
+==Metal and workshop waste==
-I've decided to take on the job of managing this initiative (I'll be the one sorting and taking out the trash!) --[[User:Msemtd|Michael Erskine]] 10:22, 27 May 2011 (BST)
+Other materials can be weighed In at Scrap Merchants, again there is no formal process for this and is reliant on volunteers taking the initiative
 == Nearby recycling points ==