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Save & Recycle It makes Sense

How you can help Swindon's dump become a community recycling centre
The dump at Barnfield Road must be "Wereclairn other peoples'waste and • collect the oil that drains out of people who are abusive and unhelp-
oneof the most visited places in Swin- it's a challenge to see how much of it your car - it causes terrible prob- ful," said Pete. "If we can get people
don. The queues to get in at the can be re-cycled," says Pete Holland lems if it's just poured down the to sort their waste at source then they
weekend and the stream of cars in who with his brother John run Hol- nearest gully in the road can get in and out quicker, the queue
and out on weekdays must prove it. land Handling. The company has • bring metal non-ferrous and fer won't be so long and more waste can
But whilst most people want to stay the contract to manage the Civic rous separate for melting down be re-used. There are lots of signs at
there as short a time as possible, many Amenity Site at Barnfield Road and • bring your old fridges and freez- the dump showing where to put the
do not realise that much of what they runs a very busy skip hire, car break- ers the CFCs that are harmful to waste. There are always helpful staff
are throwing away will be re-used in ing, and metal recovery site at Minety. the ozone layer can be extracted on duty to guide you. We want more
one way or another. "We're all too aware that we can and re-used. people to be part of the challenge to
Pete Holland at Barnfield Road do our bit to help save the earth by Please do not leave your rubbish at save the earth's resources."
making sure as much as possible is the gates of the dump. The site is
reused. Over 500 tons of waste is open from 930a.m. to 6p.m. in the NEXT MONTH: Friends
brought to the dump every week. winter and until 8p.m. from April to of the Earth have a
We try to extract as much as possible the end of September -7 days a week.
before it goes to landfill sites, but the "Nearly everybody tries to make say and we list more
people who bring it can help a great our job easier, but there are a few recycling ideas
deal by sorting it out before dump-
ing it."
Pete would ask people living in Save Glass
West Swindon to bear the following
in mind when using the site:
• fold cardboard and put it into Use Your local
the special skip
• papers and magazines go in a bottle banks at
separate container
• keep bottles seperate, contain-
ers are provided Toothill Village Centre
• place car batteries upright in the
special pile- the acid contaminates
soil if it gets into land fill sites Freshbrook Village Centre
West Swindon Centre car park b
Come on
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WRAPS is Ted Curtis, Nigel HOLLAND HANDLING
HusseyandPaulNeedham whohave
set up a co-operative to re-cycle pa-
per. Since they started collecting Swindon & Minety
paper five months ago they reckon
they have saved 1,700 trees, a small
wood at least. everything out. They can only re- e
Ted, Nigel and Paul (pictured right) cycle cycle newspaper and writing paper. 7 Day Service for Industrial, Domestic
gave up various jobs or unemploy- • Cardboard and items like cereal and Builders Waste.
ment when Bootstrap Enterprises boxes need a different re-cycling
suggested a recycling co-op could process. There is a skip at the Factory and Site Clearance.
work. Barnfield Road dump for card
"We jumped at the idea," said board. Car & Commercial Vehicle Dismantlers.
Nigel. It was a chance to run our • The glue on envelopes literally
own business, provide a public serv- gum up the re-cycling machin- Scrap Metal Merchants.
ice and help the world." ery.
The three want to assure other • There is so much ink in telephone Scrap Cars & All Types of Ferrous
groups who collect paper. "It's been books that poisonous chemicals
proved that our service compliments have tobeused to bleach thepaper and Non-Ferrous Metals Bought
school and charity collections paper; for re-use.
we don't want to compete with them. If you live on a WRAPS round, put 30 TONNE WEIGHBRIDGE
Anybody who has access to a paper out your newspapers for collection.
collection skip should use it. We con- Roughly speaking the rounds are
centrate on kerbside or door-to-door • Freshbrook to the west of Gains Yard & Weighbridge:
collection and there is a huge quan- borough and Liskeard Way - sec-
tity of paper to be picked up if only ond Monday of the month. Holland Handling
people would put it out." • Westlea, Ramleaze, Shaw (Cart-
At present WRAPS have two wright Drive/Old Shaw Lane) - Queens Street, Braydon
rounds in West Swindon. One cov- third Tuesday of the month.
ers most of Freshbrook, the other Re-cycling makes sense says Paul Minety, Wiltshire
collects in Westlea and Shaw. They Needham. "Our service is a small
only collect about a ton of paper per contribution to something which our Tel: Malmesbury (0666) 860229.
round, a quarter of what they should. children and grandchildren may
Not all paper based products can thank us all for." After Hours: Swindon 771747
be easily re-cycled and WRAPS ask WRAPS can be contacted on
people to help them by not putting 541783.