Real life recycling !!

Hello,

Today we had double glazing fitted into our apartment. There were two windows, and the windows on the balcony.

The old windows were taken out and the new ones fitted.

Now for the recycling. The balcony was done first and the windows were made of steel frames. The were cut out after the glass was removed and most of the glass came out whole. I proceeded to take the glass and bits of frame down to the skips for the bin men to collect I did not put it into the skips as I thought someone else might be able to use it and so this meant they would not have to go into the skips to collect it. Within an hour the glass panes had been taken away.

Next the wooden frames of the old windows and the frames that made the opening windows were taken out and I put these down near the skips. The frames themselves had had to be broken up to be taken out but I thought if nothing else someone could use the old wood as fuel. The openers were complete with frames and glass panes.

As I was taking the openers down a man approached me and asked if he could have the openers as he could use them at his brothers house. As I was really only throwing them away I said of course he could have them. The large metal frames from the balcony were taken down last and by the time the evening had come everything had been taken away by someone who could use what I had thrown away.

This is very good recycling as there were no carbon emissions used to actually recycle the materials, they were just re used.