| Comment | Ahah, since you’re being wrongfully downvoted, here comes a wall of text.
Can’t speak for all councils, but I’ve worked on equipment for Enva in Renfrew.
They accept blue bins as wet mix recycling, as opposed to dry mixed which has the expectation of being clean.
During their processing the waste is left in a processing shed for some time to dry, it is then compacted into RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) briquettes. If I recall correctly when I was subcontracting for them (‘18/19) these briquettes where not currently usable in the UK, but where shipped to the nordics for use in cement production.
Better quality sorted dry wastes can be reprocessed into SRF (Solid Recovered Fuel), which can be burned as biomass for energy generation, I don’t know any domestic waste recyclers that attempt to produce SRF, it is typically specific commercial waste which is selected.
So yeah, cleaning domestic recycling is a waste of water.
So is removing bottle caps & labels from glass waste to be honest, the vibration separator hoiks them all out fairly reliably (this is the machine I was working on primarily!). |
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