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Waste Exchanges


The Environment Agency

The Environment Agency operate a Waste Exchange (www.waste-exchange.org) which can be freely accessed by the public.

Materials are placed in a number of categories. The categories are fairly broad - for example "paper and card" presumably covers office paper, newsprint and card.

When a category is selected, further details appear, four at a time giving a desciption of the material available and a contact telephone number. No indication is given of the location of the material.

The number of entries appears to be fairly limited. At the time of visitng the "paper and card" category contained six entries.


Proposed Characteristics of a Waste Exchange

  1. Free to all users - both those proposing waste materials and those who are looking to reuse waste materials.
  2. Postive effort to involve small-scale users and link with household waste recycling.
  3. Overall statistical summery of numbers of producers and potential users of waste - types and quantities.
  4. Clear indication of location of producers and potential users - automatic proximity checking using OS coordinates or other system - waste exchange plays and active role in encouraging exchanges.


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