Eden Community Recycling - ECR - Cans and Foil Recycling

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Formed to provide sustainable recycling solutions in Cumbria

Cans and Foil Recycling

          Cans

Clean domestic cans of all types

Clean commercial cans upto 25 litres

Areosols



The cans are baled into mill sized half ton bales at our Mardale Road site and shipped to a U.K. processor to be shredded where the aluminium and steel seperated for reuse.

         Foil

Clean domestic foil

Clean commercial foil

           METALISED FOIL CANNOT BE RECYCLED

           (EXAMPLE - foil wrapped for freshness products)

Prior to shipping for reuse in the UK the foil is sorted and baled

Did you know..............



The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drinks can would.......

run a TV for 3 hours

run a fridge for 1 hour

run a computer for 1 hour

boil a kettle 3 times

The energy saved by recycling 4 aluminium drinks can would.......

run an electric blanket for 8 hours

run a washing machine for 1 hour

run a stero for 6 hours

    If all the aluminium cans sold in the UK each year were laid end to end they would stretch from.........

London to Paris 162 times

lap the Grand National course 7,943 times.

stretch from London to Beijing and back 3 1/2 times

stretch from John O'Groats to Lands End 41 times

EDEN COMMUNITY RECYCLING LIMITED

MARDALE ROAD, PENRITH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PENRITH, CUMBRIA, CA11 9EH

TEL: 01768 840259

EMAIL: info@ecreden.com

All types of cans and foil recycled