WHAT IS ACCEPTED AT SITE ADDRESSES l AMGEN CYMRU EACH SITE? COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTRES Bryn Pica CRC www.amgen-cymru.com Gelli Dinas Ferndale Bryn Pica CF44 OBX We are working in General household waste      Tel No: 01685 872835 partnership Wood      Garden waste      Dinas CRC Glass      Cymmer Road Paper      Dinas Cans      CF39 9BL Metals      Tel No: 01443 683727 Cardboard      Textiles      Ferndale CRC Shoes      North Road Batteries      Ferndale Used engine oil      RCT LPG gas cylinders      CF43 4RS Tel No: 01443 730750 Plasterboard      Flourescent tubes      Gelli CRC Cables      Nant-Y-Gwyddon Road Electrical goods      Gelli Fridges/freezers      RCT Asbestos      CF41 7TL TV's & monitors      Tel No: 01443 441264 Tyres      Paint      Treforest CRC Amgen Cymru operates 5 Community Plastic Bottles      Unit B23 Recycling Centres in the RCT area on Inert      Bridge Road behalf of Cynon Taff County Hard Plastic e.g. toys      Treforest Industrial Estate Borough Council. Each site is manned by UPVC Windows      Tetrapaks      CF37 5TT attendants ready to assist you in disposing Cooking oil      Tel No: 01443 844748 of your household materials as well as Polystyrene      giving you friendly advice on recycling. Each site has facilities for accepting OPENING TIMES household recycling. Please note that the APRIL – OCTOBER 8:00 - 19:30 community recycling centres are not for NOVEMBER- MARCH 8:00 - 17:30 trade wastes or business use. WHO ARE AMGEN CYMRU? Fluorescent Tubes- The tubes are taken to Plastics- All plastics such as plastic bags, a facility where they are broken down into hard plastics and plastic bottles are sold to Amgen Cymru is the key provider of waste their different waste types e.g. glass. These various companies throughout the UK for management services to the residents and products are then sold to companies that reuse in other plastic products such as businesses of Rhondda Cynon Taf. We specialise in these areas. The hazardous bottles and fleeces. provide a range of services including the waste inside the fluorescent tubes is taken management of community recycling centres, to a distillation plant were it is made safe Steel Cans- The steel cans are baled and landfill disposal, landfill remediation, recycling, and non hazardous. sent back to Corus Steel Works, the process composting and haulage. is known as the can root scheme. The Clothing- Money raised from the clothes is company then melts the cans down for WHY RECYCLE? also used to help raise funds for The Noah’s reuse in the same products. Recycling saves energy, helps reduce Ark Appeal, a donation is given to them for pollution, conserves natural resources, every tonne of clothing collected. Electrical Goods- Electrical goods such as creates new jobs, reduces the need for kettles, toasters, irons, etc are recycled by landfill and in the long run will end up Plasterboard- Plasterboard is turned from separating components with the hard plastic saving you money. waste into a gypsum powder which the being sent for crushing and compacting, the plasterboard plants can use as raw metals are then channelled into the WHAT HAPPENS TO MY material to make new plasterboards. appropriate recycling processes. All raw RECYCLING? materials recovered from electrical goods Aluminium Cans- Aluminium cans are are recycled and reused in other products. Glass- Glass is placed into a crusher which primarily utilized by rolling facilities to will crush the glass so much that it is turned produce new can sheets. This recycling SOME FACTS into very fine dust. This dust has many uses loop can be repeated endlessly because, within the construction industry such as unlike many other materials, aluminium - Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in block paving, pipe bedding, for use in the does not degrade during the recycling your dustbin can be recycled. construction of buildings and is used as a process. - It takes 24 trees to produce just 1 tonne of sand substitute. paper. Wood- Wood is separated depending on -Plastic can take up to 500 years to Batteries- Batteries are broken down into quality and used in such things as animal decompose. their various parts with the plastic being bedding and recycled fibreboard. - Every year the UK produces enough waste gathered and recycled to be sold onto other to fill the millennium stadium twice a day companies. All of the hazardous wastes that Paper- Paper is turned into varying degrees every day of the year come out of the batteries such as the acid of fibres. Depending on the structure and itself is diluted until it becomes safe. The property of these fibres, their suitability to QUESTIONS AND QUERIES lead from the batteries is melted down and use will change. The fine almost powder like Should you require any further information sold to various companies, primarily for use fibres are used in such things as paint while regarding this leaflet then please call our in new batteries but also for use in the the longer fibres with excellent weave Bryn Pica Office on 01685 870770 or visit our construction industry. characteristics are used in roads and many website at www.amgen-cymru.com insulation products.