How is my recycling sorted?
You fill your black recycling boxes with aerosols, cardboard, cans, paper, Tetrapaks, foil and plastics which your leave outside your home ready for our contractor to empty and take away.
But how does re3 sort through all these materials so they can be reborn into products such as kitchen appliances, toys, clothes and packaging?
It does this at its Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Reading and usually holds annual public tours so you can see this vast machinery in action. With Covid putting paid to that this year, re3 is instead running a free live online webinar on Thursday 22 October at 2.30pm.
You’ll learn first-hand what the MRF does, how it works, and also pick up some recycling tips. Our Waste and Recycling Manager, Pete Baveystock, is due to host the event and answer your questions.
To join via Zoom. Or join via Facebook.
A green apple for the winner
Plastic kerbs from recycled materials, lower carbon asphalt, a new way to eliminate waste and reuse resources, and five electric vehicles in its fleet have helped our contractor VolkerHighways win a top environmental award.
Its Wokingham team competed against 500 other nominees to win the International Green Apple Environment Award, from The Green Organisation, in recognition of its environmental best practice.
Most of the projects in its awards submission were commissioned by us following work by our highways innovation forum.
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