FIND YOURSELF KNEE-DEEP IN ENEMY EMPTIES?

PINNED DOWN BY OLD PAPERS?

LOST IN A DESERT OF DEAD TINS?

THEN YOU NEED…

…BECAUSE YOUR STUDENT LOAN PROBABLY DOESN’T STRETCH TO A REALLY GOOD SURVIVAL GUIDE!

Winner of

The Ecologist Communications Challenge Award

S U R V I VA L G U I D ERUBBISH

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Your mission is to crack down on the single greatest threat this nation has ever known. By becoming crack recruits in the fight against waste and rubbish, you can help defend and save the world.

L I S T E N U P M A G G O T S

When you chuck your empty beer can in a blue box, you’re saving loads of energy from being wasted mining and processing bauxite into new aluminium – pretty cool considering you’ve probably done nothing besides chucking it across the room into a recycling box.Plus, recycling your stuff properly keeps

your place tidy - you’re not going to impress any potential partners if your rooms a minefield of mouldy tins!

But how do you do it you ask? What tactics will allow you to hold back the forces of rubbish whilst you are a student? Luckily for you, you’re holding a copy of The Rubbish Survival Guide and this little book can train you in the arts of the fabled eco-warrior.

BRIEFING

TACTICS

DON’T BE AWASTERRECYCLE

Again, if someone’s nicked yours, give Gwynedd Council a call and they can resupply you. There are different varieties of this one depending on what house you live in, big wheelie bins, or smaller kitchen friendly sized bins!

These ones are where you put your mouldy food, yes, shockingly that doesn’t belong in your fridge (unless its cheese – weird that!), tea bags, vegetable peelings, banana skins and so on.

If you’ve lost yours, or if you’re going up against heavy forces and need some more – you’ll need to speak to Gwynedd Council.

YO U R W E A P O N S

BROWN BIN

Standard Issue BLUE BOX

Everything that goes into the blue box must be clean and tidy, ideally you should have an individual box for paper and cardboard / plastic bottles / glass / cans, aerosols and foil.

Paper – chuck all those first drafts of assignments in here rather than the bin!

Cans - empty tins of beans, soup – and of course cider cans!

Glass – empty beer bottles – well, it’s not like you’re gonna chuck full ones!

Clean Foil – when you’re finished with your robot fancy dress costume, recycle it to a new life!

Batteries - everyone has at least a couple of dead batteries rolling around in a random drawer, chuck them in the recycling!

Aerosols - we hope you’re using deodorant, so when you’re done, recycle them!

Plastic bottles – it really is amazing the amount of different packaging you can get cider in isn’t it? And all of them can be recycled!

Cardboard – The thin stuff, practically everything you can buy comes wrapped in a fancy little jacket of cardboard these days, if it’s corrugated, then shred it up before you put it in your box!

If you’re in a tight spot for a week you can also use any other suitable boxes you have lying around to put your recycling into and it will still be collected!

SO WHAT GOES IN HERE?

Also, if you happen to be green-fingered (as in gardening, not as in having woken up after a night out dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle) you can chuck all your garden waste in too!

Give them a call on 01766 771000 and they’ll be able to resupply you.

These are your last resort, if there’s no other way out. If there really is no way to recycle it, then go for the black bag. If you’re lucky enough to be in a house with a green wheelie bin, simply chuck it in there. Place your black backs or green wheelie bin on the kerb on the evening prior to your collection day.

BLACK BIN BAGS

You can also get hold of hessian sacks if you’re in a tight spot and have nowhere to stash your wheelie bin – again give Gwynedd Council a call.

*PRO TIP*Double bagging your rubbish means it’s less likely to rip open and spill all over your street!

TIMING YOUR ATTACK

If your landlord hasn’t bothered to let you know when you’re meant to be putting your bins out give Gwynedd Council a ring (01766 771000) and they’ll letyou know!

Your recycling (BLUE BOX) can be deployed EVERY week and your Brown Bin and Black Bin Bags on alternate weeks.

If you don’t know what week you’re on, scan the barcode with your Smart Phone’s QR reader or have a wander over to: www.gwynedd.gov.uk/recycling

If you happen to have a tank handy (or some other form or motorised transportation) or are feeling up to a bit of a march, you can get along to the Recycling Centre just outside Bangor at the Llandygai Industrial Estate, where you can recycle more things than you could possibly dream about!

It’s a true recycling oasis for any waste-warrior where you can recycle: metals, wood & timber, garden waste, rubble, cardboard, paper, plastic bottles & containers, food & drink cans, glass, textiles, paint, vegetable oil, used engine oil, tyres, batteries, fluorescent tubes, televisions, large electrical appliances, fridge & freezers, tetra paks AND general household waste.

NOTICE FOR ARMOURED DIVISIONS

(PEOPLE WITH CARS)

WHAT ARE THE RISKS?

If you fail in your mission to get your rubbish and recycling out correctly, then your world will fall to the wrath of vicious avian predators (seagulls), and undercover agents of germ warfare (rats, cockroaches, ants & maggots)!

You could also be court-martialled by the Street Enforcement Wardens with triplicate on-the-spot fines which pack a £75 punch. Stay safe waste warriors, the world is in your hands!

YOUR OLD MOBILE PHONEIf you didn’t know this, you’ve obviously been lucky enough not to have sat through an ad break on tv recently!

YOUR EMPTY PRINTER CARTRIDGESBecause, you know, if you actually did your essays, you’d probably go through these things pretty quickly!

TONERY’know, just on the off chance you happen to have something that uses toner!

STAMPSNext time something comes through your letter box with a stamp on it, save it!

You see, there’s actually a lot more stuff you can recycle than your standard empty beer can.

CLOTHINGClothes that you don’t wear anymore, don’t leave them cluttering up your wardrobe on your floor, take them to one of the many charity shops in Bangor, you might even pick up some bargains while you’re there!

CHARITY SHOPSCharity shops will also take all those books you never read and DVDs that you don’t watch any more off your hands, as well as any embarrassing music albums that you want to get rid of!

GLASSESIf you’ve damaged your specs doing something silly after a few drinks, there’s no point hanging on to them, why not pop to one of the opticians in Bangor and ask if they’ll take pass them on to Vision Aid Overseas to be used by someone in need.

FREECYCLEYou can also Freecycle (alternatively known as Freegle). Here you can get rid of stuff that you don’t need any more, passing it on to someone else OR you can also be an eco-hero by taking something you want and keeping it out of a landfill – not bad for simply getting a free new bit of kit!Interested? Have a look at:

And there’s more! There are special recycling missions, available only to elite eco-operatives, did you know that you can recycle:

E L I T E E C O -O P E R AT I V E S

M I S S I O N S

Bangor Freegle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BangorFreegle/

Bangor Freecycle http://groups.freecycle.org/BangorFreecycle/

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You can offload all of these at your friendly Students’ Union.

Bangor Freegle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BangorFreegle/

Bangor Freecycle http://groups.freecycle.org/BangorFreecycle/

W H AT A B O U T A R O U N D T H E U N I V E R S I T Y ?

The University produces around 1000 tonnes of rubbish each year, and are currently recycling around 30% of this – and with the particular set of skills, skills that you are

acquiring over the very long time spent reading this book, skills that make you a nightmare for waste,YOU can improve this even more.

Around the University there’s a colour coded system, remembering it, well it probably won’t save your life, but it can certainly make recycling that empty cola bottle a hell of a lot easier.

Blue - Paper Red - Glass Burgundy – Cans

Grey - Plastic Brown – Food Waste

Pink - Batteries

Green /Black – Landfill / General Waste

And with that friends, you are now trained to tackle the trash, disciplined to destroy debris,

and rehearsed in the art of refuse warfare.

D I S M I S S E D !

THE UNIVERSITY REFUSEWARFARESYSTEM

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