RECYCLING AT HOME

The North Devon Council Household Recycling Collection Contract is to end with SMR on Friday 2nd May, with the Council taking over the service from that date. SMR would like to thank all of the residents of North Devon for supporting us over the last 17 years and making Recycling such a success.

SMR will continue working in Partnership with Torridge District Council to increase household recycling rates and hopes that TDC residents will continue to be as supportive as they have always been.

Kerbside Collection for Householders

* 18 years experience collecting household recycling in Devon

* Company driven by ethics and corporate social responsibility, not profit

Click here for Frequently Asked Questions

This is a weekly collection service and offers the householder a green box in which to put their
* glass bottles and jars,
* food tins and drinks cans,
* aluminium foil and
* plastic bottles.

There is also a green bag in which to place
* clean dry textiles,
* newspapers & magazines.

What can I put in my recycling bin?
Dowloand the relevant information sheet:
Torridge

Some areas, as part of the CRED Bid Lottery Funding trial, have a cardboard collection and have a brown bag in which to place their cardboard.

Your recycling boxes and bags are emptied every week by our recycling crews with each material being sorted into specially designed kerbside recycling vehicles.

We operate a source separated collection method which means that in order to recycle everything you give us, we store each material separately. Cans into the can cage, plastic into the plastic cage and so on. We don't want the paper you give us being contaminated with shards of glass or getting wet, this is why we ask you to sort your recycling into the box and bag for us.

After your recycling has been collected it is transported back to our Materials Storage Depot. Here the trucks are offloaded and each material is stored ready to be sent for recycling.

SMR is committed to sustainable recycling practices and producing the highest quality materials for reprocessing by operating a kerbside sort to vehicle operation (segregating materials at the kerbside and keeping them separated on the vehicle).

SMR started collecting recyclable materials from North Devon and Torridge from the early nineties when recycling wasn't popular or part of government regulations. We continued to increase the materials collected and the area covered year on year.

In 2004 SMR won CRED funding which allowed us to extend the service to 100% coverage. Until 5th May 2008 South Molton Recycle offers the service to almost 100% of North Devon and Torridge District Council areas, and thereafter only to all Torridge District Council areas.

For more information on Kerbside Recycling please contact our team on 0176957 3081

Or alternatively

Email your compliments/complaints to info@smrl.co.uk