In January 2007 Paddington BID launched our b_green programme aimed at increasing environmental awareness amongst businesses in Paddington. This includes our weekly business recycling collection, a service provided by Paddington BID and delivered by Paper Round.
This scheme enables you to recycle all your paper and cardboard at no additional cost to your business. As a BID levy payer you should have received recycling bags as well as a roll of branded tape in addition to a postcard which will remind you of the time, date and what you can and cannot recycle.
Where does Paddington's paper go?
Once Paddington BID's bags have been collected, they are taken to Paper Round's yard in Rainham, Essex. The drivers then hand sort the paper into four grades:
- White paper. White paper's excellent quality means
that it is in high demand and has the highest environmental value because
it can be used by mills across Europe as a virgin pulp substitute, reducing
demand for trees throughout the world.
- Sorted office waste. This is a mixture of white
envelopes, magazines, coloured paper and white paper too badly mixed
to be worth sorting. State-of-the-art recycling technology is used to
recycle the paper back into high grade copier paper, which Paper Round
sells back to its UK customers under the Evolve brand. Click
here for more information on buying back your recycled paper.
- Newspaper & magazines. These are converted back into newsprint reels which is then sold to printing works across the UK.
Recycling facts and figures:
- For every tonne of paper recycled 17 trees
are spared, 7000 gallons of water are saved and 4200 KWh less electricity
is used.
- On average, each person in the UK uses over
200kg of paper per year.
- Over Christmas as much as 83 km² of wrapping
paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger
than Guernsey.
- Londoners produce 3.4 million tonnes of rubbish
a year, which is enough to fill canary Wharf tower every 10 days.
- In less than two hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall.
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For more information on Paper Round please click here |