Recycle and composting in Birmingham!

• Feb. 23 by Chloe Botting (1)

People often underestimate how important it is to recycle in a big city, and in Birmingham there is no excuse not to when there are four hundred local recycling centres available for us to use.

As well as this there are also smaller recycling banks that can be found in car parks or by your local supermarkets. Recycle your household goods, as well as recycling waste like bottles and cans you can also deposit batteries, televisions and electrical equipment that would otherwise go to waste. Household recycling centres are situated in various areas across Birmingham including Perry Barr, Sutton Coldfield and Kings Norton.

Recycling communications officer Emma Stuart from Birmingham City Council  recently spoke about the importance of recycling and how Birmingham as a city could be doing a lot more to prevent the use of new raw materials.

“The UK is running out of landfill sites and Birmingham only landfills around 15 per cent of its waste, with 60 per cent going to the Energy from Waste plant at Tyseley where it is incinerated and converted to electricity.”

Birmingham City Council is continuing to make it very easy for us to recycle, with its doorstep collection services on the increase with over 360, 000 households now receiving the doorstep recycling service. Emma Stuart also commented that the council intended to increase this by another 20,000 within the next year.

Composting is another way of recycling that people are often oblivious to. Tea bags, apple cores, coffee granules, fruit and vegetable peelings and egg boxes are all great of making compost, and as a result of this you are limiting carbon-dioxide emissions and therefore saving your environment.

To find more out about recycling in the West Midlands go to www.recyclenow.com