Recycling and Waste
Community Recycling Centres
Ballymoney Borough Council actively seeks to add local facilities to allow easy access to, and participation in, recycling. Since 2003, the Council has located community recycling centres in 9 local villages as well as 4 supermarkets in Ballymoney town. The facilities are an integral part of a wider community outreach programme whereby Council will work with groups or individuals to develop greater responsibility and participation.
By using your local recycling centre you can:
- Free up even more space in your black bin.
- Manage waste locally, hopefully meaning fewer journeys and further reducing your carbon footprint.
- Support our 2 social partners, Oxfam Ireland and Can Can Recycling, giving people a ‘hand up, rather than a hand out!’
Village Recycling Centres:
Ballybogey @ Centra Supermarket
Balnamore @ Fulton Park Recreation Grounds
Cloughmills @ Patton’s Bar
Dervock @ Church Street
Dunloy @ McCamphill Park Recreation Grounds
Killyrammer @ Killyrammer Community Centre
Loughgiel @ The Millennium Centre
Rasharkin @ St Patrick’s Church Car Park
Stranocum @ Car park beside river
You can recycle the following materials at all village sites:
Glass bottles and containers
Aluminium food and drink cans
Mixed paper
Textiles
Supermarket Recycling Centres:
Glebeside Spar ~ Milltown Spar ~ Tesco ~ Trolan’s Supervalu
You can recycle the following materials at all supermarket sites:
Glass bottles and containers
Aluminium food and drinks cans
Textiles
Your local Community Recycling Centre presents an opportunity for you to manage waste locally. You can recycle waste at these, knowing that all materials are collected and are the resources for other products and processes.
- Glass is transported to Quinn Glass in Fermanagh where it is used to make up to 17 million new glass containers each week. Recycled glass, or cullet as it is known, melts at a much lower temperature meaning it takes less energy to produce glass from cullet than raw materials. Glass is the only recyclable material which can be recycled continuously, never losing the properties which make it worth recycling.
- Aluminium cans are collected and initially processed by Can Can Recycling a local charity managed by and for adults labelled with a learning disability. These are then sold on enabling the charity to support their ongoing social and vocational training programmes. A can recycled in Ballymoney may be back on the shelf in local supermarkets within 6 weeks!
- Textile recycling is very topical, sometimes for the wrong reasons. We are very proud of our textile-recycling scheme. We are the only Council in Northern Ireland to operate our own scheme and we embarked on this in 2003 with Oxfam Ireland as our social partner. In 2005 Oxfam nominated Ballymoney Borough Council for the ‘Most Supportive Local Authority’ award in the Association of Charity Shops annual awards scheme. This was the first year a Northern Ireland local authority was nominated and we were delighted to win the overall award from a nomination list of 160 councils!
By this stage, we had also invited Can Can Recycling to join as a social partner and this has added value to textile recycling in the Borough. When you place old clothes and textiles in banks around the Borough you are guaranteed that they are being recycled ethically and that any revenue generated is used to support adults with learning disabilities at home and people held back by poverty half way across the world!
Download the Community Recycling Centres full PDF version.
Useful Websites
- www.reuk.co.uk (Recycling Website Directory)
- www.wastewatch.org.uk
- www.therubbishdiet.co.uk (How one family deals with waste)
- www.zerowaste.co.nz
- www.oxfamireland.org
- www.cancanrecycling.co.uk