Category: Commercial Rubbish Removal

Identify theft is a personal threat to us all, that’s’ why shredding your private and confidential personal and office papers is a must! With a huge push from society to be environmentally conscious, protecting your private information and recycling shredded paper documents goes hand in hand.

What Happens When You Put the Paper Shreds in the Recycling Bin?

Many council areas accept shredded paper, as long as it’s contained within your recycle bin. To ensure your shredded paper isn’t diverted to landfill, keep your shredded paper free from plastic bags. Sydney councils are committed to resource recovery, that’s why everything collected from your recycling bin is sifted through and then separated out into papers, plastics, metals, and items that cannot be recycled.

How Can You Recycle Shredded Paper?

While recycling companies usually don’t accept a few sheets of paper shreds from individuals, large-scale shredding activities produce large piles of shredded paper that recycling companies can easily manage. So when you go for a professional shredding service, your paper shreds will most likely be recycled.

There are several ways to recycle shredded papers. Before we move on to the local recycling services in your area, let’s first have a quick look at how you can recycle your paper shreds at home:

• Fill the boxes with shredded paper when packing fragile materials.

Fill a box with 1-2 inches of shredded paper. Then put your items over it and space them out evenly so that they don’t collide with one another. Then fill the spaces between the items with paper shreds so they don’t move when you carry them from one place to another.  In this way, you can recycle your paper shreds and protect your fragile items from breaking. You can also use paper shreds for filling gift bags or gift boxes. However, make sure that none of the confidential information on the shredded paper is readable if you’re using it to fill packages for others. 

•  Use your paper shreds to provide nutrients to plants

Paper shreds contain carbon, which helps plants grow better by adding nutrients to the soil. All you have to do is put the paper shreds into a compost bin along with other food waste so they can break down. Try to maintain a balance of 25 parts paper to one part vegetable and food waste so that the compost has a high carbon to nitrogen ratio. Also, don’t use glossy or coloured shredded paper since they may contain chemicals that would negatively affect the balance of the soil.

• Use the shredded paper for pet bedding

If you have a small pet, such as a rat, mouse or guinea pig, then you can use shredded paper to make their bedding. In order to do so, mix equal parts of your shredded paper and your pet’s bedding so it slowly adjusts to it. Layer the bottom of the cage with this mix and replace it with a fresh one once it gets soiled. Paper shreds also make a good add-in or alternative for pet litter as they can absorb moisture and odours.

If you don’t own any pets or can’t do any of the above activities, then the best option you have is to contact your local rubbish remover who will make sure your paper is taken to a recycling company.

When shredding paper:

• Make sure you read the user manual and operate the shredder with safety.
• When emptying the paper shredder, put the paper shreds in a large container so that you can easily take them to your recycle bin.

If you’re a business and you need to make sure your documents have been destroyed correctly, ask to be issued with a certificate of destruction.

How do Recycling Companies Recycle Shredded Paper?

At Cheapest Load of Rubbish your shredded paper, books, newspapers and cardboard are all placed in our paper baler ready to be taken to the recycling centre. Baled paper is then shredded and mixed, at high speed, with water to create paper fibres. These fibres are screened and cleaned to remove staples, plastic and dirt, then heated to remove glues and inks. Once this step is complete, the diluted pulp is mixed with additives which in turn can be used to create new products like newspapers, cardboard cartons and cardboard boxes.

How Cheapest Load of Rubbish Can Help You?

Our highly skilled team of professionals strives to provide our customers with the most environmentally friendly solutions to all their waste disposal problems. It is our commitment to work towards achieving a brighter, cleaner, and sustainable future,  not only for our generation but also for generations to come. In keeping with the same, we provide recycling services for all kinds of waste materials, including shredded paper. With our established hand-loading and sorting process we recycle up to 80 percent of the waste we collect. This results in a massive save on rubbish that goes straight to landfill sites and litters our beautiful country.

So if you’re located in Sydney and are looking for a waste management company to recycle your shredded paper, just give us a call and discuss it with our friendly team. We’ll handle the rest and make sure your shredded paper is recycled in the most effective way.

Do you believe that Australians have been recycling since 1815!

According to recyclingnearyou.com.au, in this year, “The first Australian paper mill to use recycled material was built. It used recycled rags to make paper”.

Through education, Aussie’s are now aware of the importance of reuse and recycling. We no longer throw everything into our regular bin but instead embrace the 3 bin system, separating items such as paper, plastic and metals.

This action has now become second nature, but if we stumble across something a little more out of the ordinary, what do we do then?

Cheapest Load of Rubbish receives many requests to remove unusual items, but what most people don’t know is that these items, in most cases, are highly recyclable.

Boat and car parts, cool room panels, work benches, mattresses, bikes and large appliances may be bulky and cumbersome, but all of these items or their parts can be recycled or reused.

With over 25 years experience in the waste management industry, there isn’t much that we haven’t seen or collected.

We’ve collected:

• Industrial Safes
• Boats
• Motors
• Tyres
• Air Conditioning Units
• Concrete Laundry Tubs
• Sheds
• Pianos

How To Deal With Your Big Bulky Rubbish…

Trash It The Right Way

If your big and bulky items have lived their last life, then why not trash them the right way.

1. Pull the item apart and seperate any recyclable items. Not only with this stop excessive tipping to landfill, but it will help to reduce your rubbish removal fees too.
2. If you’re removing an item to make way for a newer model, make sure you ask the retailer about their recycling options. Quite often white goods can be taken away at the same time your new item is delivered.

Need Extra Help?

You can always rely on Cheapest Load of Rubbish to get you out of a sticky situation.

We offer free onsite quotes so there are never any hidden surprises. We’ll even remove your rubbish items from any part of your property. With 2 men per truck, you can rest up while our guys do all the hard work for you!

To book your free quote or rubbish removal pick up, call us on 9550 1181 and one of our friendly team will talk you through all of our service options.

We live in a world where almost anything can be recycled. Glass, one of Australia’s most common materials, has become a main staple of the recycling industry.

It is one man-made product that can be re-made time and again, without losing any of its properties and without polluting the environment.

In fact, the same glass can be recycled a million times over to produce bottles and jars of the same high quality every time. [1]

But architectural glass used for windows, doors, transparent walls and windshields, has a different composition to household glass so can’t be recycled in the same manner.

What’s the difference between household glass and architectural glass?

Bottle glass has a different chemical composition and melting temperature than window glass, meaning the two products can’t be recycled together.

Manufacturers creating new bottles have invested in the equipment needed to crush bottles and remelt them. This infrastructure is vital to make recycling work. In addition, bottles are a fairly uniform and easy-to-identify product.

Window glass is a trickier proposition. Most windows come attached to metal or wooden frames and have to be disassembled, which is labor intensive and expensive. Picking out the different types of window glass poses a bit more of a challenge. Is the glass tinted or not? Is it safety glass or tempered glass? All these different subsets of window glass also cannot be combined to create a new product. As a result, the industry has said “no” to recycling old windows.

However, not all hope is lost. Creative industry professionals are finding other uses for old windows. The glass can be melted and remanufactured into Fibreglass. Ground glass can be incorporated into glassphalt, a glass and asphalt blend, or stirred into the reflective yellow and white paint used on roads. Broken glass is combined with concrete to create terrazzo flooring and countertops.

Sheet glass can also be crushed and tumbled for Agriculture and landscape applications, such as top dressing, root zone material or golf bunker sand.

How does recycling glass save energy?

When glass is crushed in the recycling process it becomes a product called cullet.

Making new glass from recycled cullet saves energy because recycled glass melts at a lower temperature than virgin raw materials. Because the materials do not need to be heated as much, less energy is required in the manufacturing process.
Recycling glass also reduces the need for mining of raw materials. Not only does this help in conserving our natural resources, but it also lowers environmental pollution minimising the use of heavy machinery and diesel fuels.

Did you Know?

• The energy saved from recycling just one glass bottle is enough to power a computer for 25 minutes. [4]
• Fulgurites and obsidian are both naturally occurring glass. Fulgurites are formed when lightening strikes sand, and obsidian is created when felsic lava is cooled at a rapid rate.

We can all recycle glass…

If you use glass on a small scale, make sure you place it in your council recycle bin bare of contaminants such as food, plastic lids, cork or metals.

For larger hauls of glass products such as bottles from parties, used windows and doors from your latest renovation or architectural glass removed from shopfronts and internal walls, call the team at Cheapest Load of Rubbish.

We recycle all waste where possible by separating every load of rubbish into like materials. Each load is then transported to the appropriate transfer station or recycling plant ready for processing and reuse.

For more information about how we can help you recycle, why not give us a call on 9550 1181!
We’re only too happy to help.

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1. https://www.cleanup.org.au/PDF/au/cua-glass-fact-sheet.pdf
2. https://recyclenation.com/2011/09/window-glass-recycling-difficult-not-impossible
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_recycling
4.  https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/resources/managewaste/120354-glass.pdf