Impressive bit of waste reduction

[Fintray]

Plasterboard can be recycled but the amount from a single house build probably is not worth it unless it was really local to such a facility.

[Oldgreybeard]

Plasterboard can be recycled but the amount from a single house build probably is not worth it unless it was really local to such a facility.

IIRC the extra charge for about 1/3rd of a skip full of plasterboard offcuts wasn't a lot, around £10 I think. What impressed me was how well they sorted out the contents of each skip, the receipts included the weight of each category recycled, must have been at least a dozen different categories on each receipt.

[Fintray]

Plasterboard can be recycled but the amount from a single house build probably is not worth it unless it was really local to such a facility.

IIRC the extra charge for about 1/3rd of a skip full of plasterboard offcuts wasn't a lot, around £10 I think. What impressed me was how well they sorted out the contents of each skip, the receipts included the weight of each category recycled, must have been at least a dozen different categories on each receipt.

Must have been a well organised company, it certainly beats it all going to landfill.

[AE-NMidlands]

Our tip explains that it will accept non-industrial amounts of plasterbord, but that it must be kept separate as it is Special Waste - because in anoxic landfill it generates H₂S.

[Oldgreybeard]

Must have been a well organised company, it certainly beats it all going to landfill.

Impressed me, TBH, I didn't realise how thorough they were until after the first skip had been collected: https://www.rvmaidment.co.uk/

They claim to recycle 80% of the waste they handle. I popped in there to chat about the plasterboard, as at the time they said they wanted it in a separate skip, but as we didn't have much they suggested using a bit of the plasterboard to make a partition in the general waste skip and put all of it at one end. They empty every skip out on to the floor of a big shed and hand sort through it. Once I'd seen them doing that I tried to make sure that we didn't mix stuff up too much, to make their job a bit easier.