Recycling at BHS

Bring your used cartridges to the recycling dept. and raise money for BHS

  • A typical cartridge will take up to 1000 years to decompose
  • More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK alone (1800 tonnes) the same weight as 18 Blue Whales
  • Only between 20-30% of all printer cartridges are currently recycled
  • Industry annalists estimate a spent cartridge can be reused or remanufactured between 3 to 7 times.

 

Bergvliet cubs join in recycling at Bergvliet High

This year ‘Recycling’ is the theme of the National Challenge at Bergvliet Cub Pack.

To help them obtain their Recycling badge the cubs have been helping out at Bergvliet High’s recycling depot on Saturdays mornings

 

 

 

2008 NOTICE

Recycling hours at Bergvliet High School

The recycling depot at BHS has changed the hours when goods may be deposited during weekdays. With immediate effect, the depot will be open only between 08:00 and 15:00 from Mondays to Fridays during the school term and from 09:00 to 14:00 during the holiday periods. (Saturdays remain open from 09:00 to 13:00). The depot will be closed over all long weekends. The community is requested to not deliver any goods to the school over these periods.

As a matter of interest, the team raised R114 000 last year, the highest amount yet!

Sorting required

Due to the huge backlog from Christmas, the increased amount of recyclables coming in and the fact that Bergvliet Recycling is dependant upon volunteer help for sorting. WE ARE URGENTLY REQUESTING THAT ALL RECYCLABLES BROUGHT IN TO THE DEPOT ARE CLEAN AND SORTED.

The recyclable waste and sorting which we are kindly requesting is as follows:

Plastic

  • 1 and 2 litre milk bottles — clean, lops discarded and flattened please
  • 2 litre coke bottles, labels removed, lids discarded and flattened please.
  • Oil, spring water, energade, sunlight dishwashing liquid bottles etc - all with a "dimple" underneath.
  • Only no, 2 plastic eg shampoo, fabric softener etc(the 2 must be enclosed in a recycling triangle)
  • All soft plastic bags - clean please
  • No cellophane please.

Newspaper and telephone directories

Please remove glossy ads as these go into a separate igloo.

Magazines and glossy advertisements

All glossy fliers, ads and magazines have their own igloo

Paper

High grade paper includes:

  • All white office paper
  • While invoices
  • White envelopes including window envelopes
  • School books - covers removed please (this is a big help).
  • Telephone and other accounts
  • Shredded white paper

Common mix includes:

  • Brightly coloured paper
  • Soft cardboard eg cereal boxes, egg boxes
  • Gift wrapping
  • Fax paper
  • Brown envelopes.

It is very time consuming sorting out the different grades of paper so we would really appreciate your help in this regard.

Glass

  • All glass jars with lids - clean please
  • All other glass eg wine bottles, beer bottles, chutney bottles.
  • No broken china or window panes!

Tins

All dean food tins, cooldrink and beef cans

Aluminium

Foil and aluminium beverage cans.

We are unable to recycle:

  • Corrugated cardboard boxes
  • Polystyrene
  • Waxed boxes eg liquifruit, long life milk and freezer food boxes

Please do not bring in black bags containing a mixture of glass, paper, tins and plastic bags unless each is individually bagged. These bags are not only time consuming to sort, but the glass often breaks making it dangerous to those volunteers sorting-

Please note that we are open:

  • Weekdays from 9am to 3pm
  • Saturdays 9am to 1pm
  • Holidays from 9am to 2pm
  • NOT OPEN OVER LONG WEEKENDS

If the school main gate is open after these hours PLEASE deposit your
recycling INSIDE the RECEIVING GARAGE ensuring that the garage door is
properly closed.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.
WILLIE, AMANDA AND THE VOLUNTEER TEAM