Sustainability - The 4Rs - Recycle
More Recycling Tips
Recycling tips for the home continued
Steel
Most steel cans can be recycled – e.g. drink cans, food tins, coffee tins, oil cans, paint tins, bottle tops, jam jar lids, aerosol cans.
- Remove lids completely
- Make sure the can is empty
- Wash the can
- Put the lid inside the can.
Many towns and cities collect steel cans for recycling, or have places where people can drop-off cans. Find out how steel cans are recycled in your area.
Aluminium
Aluminium cans and cooking foil can be recycled.
- Check the can is empty (objects like stones or cigarette butts mess up the recycling process).
- Wash the can
- Ask someone older or bigger to crush the can.
Most towns and cities recycle aluminium cans. Find out how aluminium cans are recycled in your area.
Textiles (clothes, towels, bed linen etc.)
Anything you can wear, or sleep in, can be recycled. This includes all clothes, hats, belts, and shoes (in pairs). Also blankets, curtains, towels and bed linen.
- Wash clothes before they are recycled.
- Call the charities or goodwill stores in your area and ask what clothes they will recycle.
- If a clothing recycle bag is delivered to your home, check the instructions on it.
- If there is a clothing recycle bin in your area, check the instructions on it.
Electronics
Electronics are items and equipment that use electricity. Many of these can be traded in for new stuff, or recycled including:
- Computers, monitor screens, hard disks, printers and other things that connect to a computer.
- Mobile phones
- TVs, video recorders, DVD players, game consoles
- Sound equipment (radios, speakers, amplifiers, tape recorders)
- Fridges, washing machines and other home equipment (these are called whitegoods)
It’s best to trade these things in or recycle them as soon as you know you don’t need them any more. The longer you leave them, the less likely it is that you will be able to trade them in, and they could start to fall apart and become dangerous.
Recycling is not always possible >>