How you can recycle your waste using Adelaide skip bins

Reducing waste by using the services of a skip bins company in Adelaide, can deliver some great benefits. Firstly, recycling conserves valuable natural resources, such as oil. By recycling plastic containers and bottles, oil consumption is reduces, as all plastics are oil based. Failure to recycle plastic, has the potential to increase the price of crude oil and make shopping more expensive.

Currently, South Australia has very impressive recycling rates. In fact, they are the highest recycling rates in Australia. According to the Advertiser, South Australians saved more than 2.55 million tonnes of rubbish from ending up in landfill. This huge feat equates to the energy and oil of 205,300 cars. Overall, each South Australian would recycle 1573 kg of waste per year. More than 13,700 tonnes of plastic was recovered from recycling in South Australia, from recycling plastic soft drink bottles. Knowing the right things to recycle can be complicated, which is why it is good to take advice from skip bin companies in Adelaide, like Green Bins. Green Bins can separate your waste after you have it in the skip bin and pick out your recyclables. This is especially important when it comes to glass. Glass bottles cannot be recycled if they have been mixed with other types of glass like light-bulbs, glass tableware and window glass. This is because ceramic contaminate glass and are very difficult to sort out. The most valuable glass to recycle is clear glass, while mixed colour glass is essentially worthless.

It's important to avoid having broken glass in your skip, as many recyclers have trouble working out where these shards of glass have come from. Glass that cannot be recycled includes windscreen glass, mirrors, glasses, oven proof glass, light globes and medical glass. To prepare glass for recycling, you need to remove lids or caps and rinse. Avoid including china, ceramics or stone with glass bottles and jars, as it can lead to the rejection of thousands of bottles and jars collected for recycling.

Next time you need advice on recycling, talk to a leading skip bins provider in Adelaide, like Green Bins. Contact them now on (08) 8280 3318. 

Why recycling with some skip bins in Adelaide is a good idea

Rather than taking you waste to the landfill, hire skips bins in Adelaide with an eco-friendly waste management company. Skip bins companies like Green Bins, have a strong focus on the environment and endeavour to recycle as much waste as possible.

Interestingly, if you recycle aluminium then 13,300 kwh of electricity will be save. Furthermore, turning old cans into new cans saves 95% of the energy needs to make new cans, and also 95% less air pollution is produced. Amazingly, one recycled aluminium can saves enough electricity to run a computer or a TV for three hours.

Recycling cans may not seem like much, but in reality it can be extremely beneficial for the environment. With bauxite ore, used to manufacture aluminium cans mined from the tropics, it can cause huge damage to tropical forests. By recycling cans, you can help save the tropical forests. In less than 60 days, recycled cans find themselves back on the supermarket shelves.

While Australia is beating the United Kingdom, France and Spain in can recycling rates, there is still room to improve. In 2010, Australian's recycled only 30.3% of steel cans and 67.4% of aluminium cans.

Australian's do have a good recycling rate, beating United Kingdom, France and Spain. Promisingly, counties all over the world are improving a lot with recycling. For example in 2002, Germany recycled 78% or their aluminium cans, while in 2010 they are now recycling 96%.

By recycling your waste rather than taking it to landfill, you will reduce the expense of running landfills, and hopefully in the long run get rid of them altogether. Landfills cost a lot of build and run, and once they are closed it costs a lot to rehabilitate. They are also unpleasant to live next to as they can pollute your home. Furthermore, as the materials break down in the landfill and are exposed to weather, the landfill begins to produce gas and leachate.

Instead of hurting the environment, make sure you do the right thing and invest in a waste management company that is environmentally friendly. A leading skip bins company in Adelaide is Green Bins, who can assist with your recycling. Call them on Green Bins on (08) 8280 3318.