Recycle for a good cause at Bickenhill HWRC
From Councillor Mrs Kate Wild, Cabinet Member for Community Services on 20 February 2012
Solihull residents can now recycle even more materials at Bickenhill Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC), and help developing countries in the process.
The HWRC can now be used to recycle hard plastics, printer cartridges, mobile phones, hand tools and spectacles.
Among the many hard plastics residents can now recycle at the HWRC are unwanted plastic garden furniture, children’s toys and old or broken buckets.
Any hand tools taken to Bickenhill for recycling will be refurbished and sent to Africa to be re-used, while spectacles will also be refurbished and sent to developing countries.
Residents who recycle their printer cartridges and mobile telephones at the HWRC will be supporting the charities CLIC Sargent and RNIB.
Councillor Mrs Kate Wild, Cabinet Member for Community Services, said: “Our residents do an excellent job at recycling, both in their kerbside collections and at Bickenhill HWRC. With the added incentive of helping charities or less well off countries, I have no doubt they will continue to do the borough proud with their efforts.”
Bickenhill HWRC is for Solihull residents to dispose of their general household waste and to recycle many other materials. More information is available online at www.solihull.gov.uk/environment/bickenhill.htm.
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