While the boom in recycling is good news for those in the bulk handling sector as business flourishes, residents in one British town have been left in utter pandemonium.
As part of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s new waste handling scheme, residents are required to place their refuse in nine separate bins, sacks and buckets.
The various containers include, among many, a silver slopbucket for food waste, which is then tipped in to a larger, green outdoor food bin, a blue box for glass, foil, tins and aerosols and a white bag for clothing and textiles.
Some residents have revealed that the scheme is creating a boom in business for the waste industry however, reporting that three separate vehicles are now distributed to collect household waste.
Meanwhile, in the US many waste handling facilities are adopting a method known as single-stream recycling in which a variety of waste products can pass down a single heavy-duty conveyor before being sorted by a machine, the Day reports.
Waste handling has become a huge growth market in the UK, but is unlikely the pilot scheme in Staffordshire well be embraced by communities nationwide if it is extended.
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