Talk:Civic amenity site

Merge to transfer station

Personally I don't think civic amenity site should be merged into transfer station. The two facilities do different things. The transfer station is a bulking facility where by waste deposited from local collections is bulked up to be transported to the final treatment or disposal facility. A CA site is a local site that provides facilities for the public to deposit their recyclable materials. They can be combined but technically they are different.--Alex 12:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Discussion continued at Talk:Transfer station, please respond there.

Constraints

A major constraint in the optimal recyling of materials is that at civic amenity sites, products are not disassembled by hand and have each individual part sorted into a bin, but instead have the entire product sorted into a certain bin.

This makes that extracting of rare earths and other materials is uneconomical (at recycling sites, products typically get crushed after which the materials are extracted by means of magnets, chemicals, special sorting methods, ...) and optimal recycling of for example metals is impossible (an optimal recycling method for metals would require to sort all similar alloys together rather than mixing plain iron with alloys).

Obviously, disassembling products is not feasible at civic amenity sites, and a better method would be to sent back the broken products to the manufacturer, so that the manufacturer can disassemble the product, for example for making new products or atleast to have the components sent seperatly to recycling sites (for proper recyling, by the exact type of material). At present though, no laws are put in place in any country to oblige manufacturers of taking back their products for disassembly, nor are there even such obligations for manufacturers of cradle-to-cradle products.

perhaps add in article KVDP (talk) 10:53, 19 December 2013 (UTC)