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Clean Up Australia Day – 2013

Posted on February 21, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Building on the success of previous years, Transition Town Guildford and the Guildford Association will be hosting a Clean Up Australia day site around the Guildford Primary school (125 Helena street).

Come join us to clean up and hang around for morning tea. Children welcome, but must be supervised by parents.

When: Sunday 3rd March

Time: 8:30-10:30 am

Bring: Bring gloves, water, hat, enclosed shoes and a friend!

Sign up on the CUAD website or see you on the day.

E-Waste and Recyclable Goods Days

The East Metropolitan Regional Council are running computer and television recycling days across the member councils (Bayswater, Belmont, Bassendean Kalamunda, Mundaring, Swan).

Bring your e-waste along this weekend (23 and 24 February) to one of the Tech Collect locations to have it recycled for free. All computer equipment and accessories, cables, printers, scanners and TVs accepted.

City of Swan Location – Jack Williamson Oval, Eveline Road, Middle Swan.
When: 9 am to 4 pm all weekend. More info here, all locations here.

And on the 9th of March the City of Swan are having another Recyclable goods drop off day. See the Upcoming Events page for details.

Clean Up day poster

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National Recycling week 2012

Posted on November 16, 2012 by | Leave a comment

This week is National Recycling week (12-18 November) and the City of Swan kicked it off with a Recyclable Goods drop off day last weekend. There was a phenomenal turn out, with containers overflowing with recyclable goods. One of the items the City were accepting was mattresses.

Apparently an average mattress consumes 0.75 m3 of space in landfill, and Australians send over 1.25 million mattresses to landfill each year! That’s a lot of space taken up in our landfill sites that could otherwise be recycled.

The City of Swan has collected over 11 tonnes of mattresses this year at its Recyclable goods days.

The Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (EMRC) opened WA’s first Mattress Recycling Facility in 2009 which is located at Lakes Road, Hazelmere. 

 What is recycled from Mattresses?

  • Timber: Timber from bases is recovered and sent to the EMRC’s timber recycling facility where it is processed into a reusable woodchip and used in the manufacture of particleboard, animal bedding and mulch.
  • Springs: Steel springs are sent to scrap metal merchants and melted down into new steel.
  • Foam: The foam and wadding from inside the mattress is reused as carpet underlay.

 The average mattress contains 12.5 kg of steel, 2 kg of wood and 1.5 kg of foam.

 So next time you replace your mattress look on the COS website for the next Recyclable Goods Drop Off Day and help our environment! There’s another one in January 2013.

Electronic waste collected. Photos Courtesy of Murray at the COS

 

 

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