Recycling
Recycling in Harrogate
Clearpoint Recycling LTD – Visit the website here
Location: 14 Crown House, Harrogate HG2 8PB – Phone: 01423 855978
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Forge Waste & Recycling (Harrogate – Visit the website here
Location: 19 Pannal Ash Dr, Harrogate HG2 0JA – Phone: 01423 210213
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Harrogate Household Waste Recycling Centre – Visit the website here
Location: Wetherby Road Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1DE
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Harrogate Scrap Car Buyers – Visit the website here
Location: Station Parade, Harrogate HG1 1TE – Phone: 01423 740716
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West Harrogate Household Waste Recycling Centre – Visit the website here
Location: Penny Pot Ln, Harrogate HG3 2SN
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Rubbish
The amount of rubbish humans produce has been escalating over the last 50 years. There has been a gradual change in shopping habits and people’s attitudes to throwing things away.
Things aren’t built to last – the need for less expensive products means that they don’t last. Items also go out of fashion very quickly with styles and technologies updating at a rapid rate.
The personal service provided by shop-keepers has been replaced by self-service in supermarkets where the goods are often highly packaged; often loose items are packed together and priced to speed up payment at the check-outs.
Some goods are elaborately wrapped to make them look more attractive, put into plastic bags and then loaded into plastic carrier bags at the checkout. A Women’s Environmental Network group bought a trolley-load of 102 basic items – -the shopping for a family for two weeks. They found that there was a total of 543 pieces of packaging.
The UK government estimate that we generate about 177 million tonnes of waste every year in England alone.
What can be Done?
- Don’t mix up your rubbish. Separate glass, paper, metal and organic waste.
- Buy and use recycled paper products wherever possible. A list of stockists is available from Friends of theEarth.
- Use your own shopping bag. Do not accept plastic carrier bags every time you shop.
- Refuse to buy over-packaged goods. Buy fresh unpackaged food whenever possible.
- Look out for goods in recyclable containers.
- Contact your local authority and ask about their waste disposal and recycling policies.
- Contact Oxfam and other charities to find out what they are collecting.
- Items collected for sale might include aluminium foil, cans, clothing and newspapers.