Plastice being sent to China

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Tom Good
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Post: # 72422Post hmk »

There is a company Norfolk way who recycles plastc bags and the plastic film magazines etc come in (like the Saturday newspaper so all the junk mail doesn't fall out :roll: ). As far as I know they do it on site. I'll dig the address out to post.

I have to say I'd wondered about the bag recycling. The company in the UK has to have clean bags, with no paper, food debris, dirt etc as otherwise the whole batch is ruined. It's not actually cost effective (they do it as a public service alongside their main business) and having to check each bag would mean too many staff to be feasible. Given that most of the population struggle with basic waste sorting, I'd have thought most bags in a supermarket drop off point would have a till receipt or some other rubbish in them.

Hazel

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Tom Good
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Location: Oxfordshire

Post: # 72423Post hmk »

Ok, I've found the address and it's Polyprint Mailing Films. Find out about their recycling policy here- http://www.polyprint.co.uk/recycling.html

Unfortunately, they only take polythene (the magazine wrappers) not the supermarket bags, sorry to get your hopes up. I haven't sent them anything for ages because my magazine wrappers become doggy poop bags etc, but my mum does.

Polyprint Mailing Films Ltd
Mackintosh Road
Rackheath Industrial Estate
Rackheath
Norwich
NR13 6LJ

HTH

Hazel

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