Recycling in Salford

• Printer Cartridge and Mobile Phone Recycling
• Recycling in General
• Composting

Closure of our Recycling Scheme

The Seedley and Langworthy Trust are no longer able to provide the printer cartridge and mobile phone recycling service, due to the high levels of costs associated with collecting printer cartridges and mobile phones from our centres. According to a survey carried out by the Trust two years ago, only three centres out of 50 said that they would pay for a collection if the Trust introduced a service charge. We were also unable to secure further funding for our printer cartridge and mobile phone recycling project, as funding and grants opportunities are not widely available to maintain an existing recycling scheme.

We would like to thank all our centres for working with us and wish them all the best of luck with recycling their printer cartridges and mobile phones.

Please find below a list of companies we put together, who recycle printer cartridges and mobile phones in England. If you do not wish to use one of the companies listed below, please do a search on the Internet to find the right recycling company for you. We are hoping that our centres will continue recycling their printer cartridges and mobile phones, although the Trust is no longer able to offer the service.

Green Source Solutions: Greensource Solutions, 14 Kingsland Trading Estate, St Philips Road, Bristol BS2 0JZTel: 0117 304 2390, Fax: 0117 304 2391, Website: http://www.greensource.co.uk, E-mail: recycling@greensource.co.uk

Recycool: 31 - 37 Etna Road, Falkirk, FK2 9EG Tel: 08451 30 20 50 Fax: 08451 30 03 03, Website: http://www.recycool.org, E-mail: info@recycool.org

Women’s Aid: PO Box Bristol 391, BS99 7WS, Registered Charity No. 1054154 Tel: 0117 944 4411, Fax: 0117 924 1703, Website: http://womensaid.org.uk E-mail:: info@womensaid.org.uk Helpline: helpline@womensaid.org.uk

Bat Conservation Trust: Unit 2, 15 Cloisters House, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BG, Registered Charity No. 1012361. Bat Helpline: 0845 1300 228, Office Telephone: 020 7627 2629, Fax: 020 7627 2628Website: http://www.bats.org.uk, E-mail: enquiries@bats.org.uk

Christian Aid: Tel: 0800 435 576, Website: http://www.christianaid.org.uk

TraidCraft: Kingsway, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE11 0NE, UKTel: 0191 491 0591, Fax: 0191 497 6562, Website: http://www.traidcraft.co.uk

ShP for Charity: Citylab, 4-6 Dalton Square, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1PPTel: 01524 580911, Fax: 07956 338669Website: http://www.shpforcharity.co.uk , E-Mail: richard.bowden@shpforcharity.co.uk

Recycling in General

Salford City Council provide a free door-to-door collection service for recycling. The council provides households with a free green box and paper sack and these are collected on your normal refuse collection day. The following items can be recycled using the councils kerbside recycling scheme;all food and drinks cans, aluminium and steel, aluminium foil, brown cardboard boxes, corrugated packaging & shoe boxes, clear, green, brown & blue bottles & jars, all plastic drinks bottles, detergent & shampoo bottles only (no chemicals), plastic carrier bags, clothes and shoes, paper and junk mail, newspapers, envelopes and catalogues. Recycling services are also available for low rise and high rise flats within Salford.

The council provides garden waste recycling services within the selected pilot areas of Salford as the scheme is still being trialed. To find out more about the recycling services provided by Salford City Council, visit their recycling webpage. Alternatively, please find below the contact information for Environmental Services.

Rubbish & Recycling Service: Turnpike House, 631 Eccles New Road, Salford, M5 2SH Telephone: 0161-909 6500, E-Mail: environment@salford.gov.uk

Composting

Composting can be described as the nature’s most efficient and oldest way of soil fertilisation and waste disposal. There has been an increasing interest in composting as people are becoming more environmentally aware and conventional waste disposal methods are creating growing environmental problems.

You can compost the following; all your vegetable and fruit peelings, teabags, paper towels, eggshells, your garden waste. Please visit Recyclenow’s website to see how composting works and the process in which your vegetable peelings and garden waste turn into home made compost.

Please visit the council’s website to get a compost bin. Alternatively you can call the following number 0845 077 0757, quoting reference HCA1 to order your compost bin.

If you are interested in finding out more about composting, please visit the wasteonline’s website. It is packed with useful information and tips on composting and it explains composting in great detail.