Recycling centre
Recycling centre
CONTACT DETAILS
- PUBLIC ATTENTION: Saturday:
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10:00 to 13:00 h
16:00 to 19:00 h
The recycling centre
The Forcarei Town Council also offers its residents a household waste collection service for the recycling centre.
For this home collection of bulky rubbish without the need to bring it themselves, residents should call 986 75 50 36 or 986 75 54 32, giving the following details:
- Name, address and telephone
- Type of waste to be collected
- Quantity
Objectives of the Recycling Centre
Centralised points are created for the deposit by citizens of selectively collected waste for which specific management is required, due to its size – bulky waste – or its composition – batteries, solvents and other materials.
Objectives of the Recycling Centre
Centralised points are created for the deposit by citizens of selectively collected waste for which specific management is required, due to its size – bulky waste – or its composition – batteries, solvents and other materials.
The main objectives of these facilities are:
- Recover materials contained in waste for recycling, such as paper, glass, metals, etc.
- Avoid uncontrolled dumping of rubble and bulky waste such as furniture or household appliances.
- Separate waste generated in households that represent a risk to the environment such as medicines, batteries, paints, etc.
The Forcarei recycling centre is located in the Freixeira Industrial Park (Cachafeiro).
The recycling centre is an area for the collection and management of waste produced in the domestic environment. (For waste produced in the industrial sector, the Xunta has Green Centres).
Waste admissible at the recycling centre
Various
- Glass (igloo)
- Paper (igloo)
- Cardboard (igloo)
- Bricks, cans, packaging
- Wood
- Metals: aluminium, iron, copper, bronze, stainless steel, etc.
- Plastics
- Clean textiles
Voluminous
- Household appliances
- Furnishings, furniture, mattresses, bedsteads, chests of drawers and frames, etc.
Toxic and harmful
- Vegetable cooking oils and mineral oils for cars
- Automotive batteries
- Solvents
- Batteries
- Sprays / aerosols
- X-rays
- Fluorescent tubes
- Paints and solvents
Non-acceptable wastes
- Unclassified materials
- Organic matter
- Shoes and dirty clothes
- Infectious, clinical, biosanitary or cytotoxic waste
- Radioactive waste (Lightning rods...)
- Industrial waste from large and medium-sized enterprises.
- Agricultural or livestock waste.
- Agricultural or livestock waste.
- Products from seized products
- Any other waste that is not readily identifiable and classifiable as acceptable.
- Inert building rubble
