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What We Recycle....
 

 

 

 - Aluminium Drinks Cans/Aluminium Foil      

 

 

We collect Aluminium drinks can from local businesses such as restaurants, pubs, cafes, factories and golf clubs.  We also have can banks placed at various community recycling sites in the borough of Ballymoney.  These cans are then collected by Bryson House Recycling, are sent over to England, and will be back on supermarket shelves in a mere 4-6 weeks.

 

You can find our can banks at:

 

  • Balnamore
  • Ballybogey
  • Cloughmills
  • Dervock
  • Drumaheglis Marina
  • Dunloy
  • Killyrammer
  • Macosquin
  • Loughguile
  • Rasharkin
  • Stranocum

     

- Mobile Phones

 

We work alongside various community groups and youth clubs, providing them with collection boxes so that members may donate their unwanted mobile phones.  Our mobiles are sold to Accceptable Enterprises who are a charity organisation based in Antrim.  The mobiles are then refurbished or used for parts, and sold in Third world countries for re-use.  

     
     
     

 

- Ink Cartridges

 

Most of our ink cartridges are donated by the the Civil Service and the Northern Board Trusts.  We also receive cartridges from local businesses. We sort through them at our premises, record the serial numbers and send them to Recycling Appeal.  The cartridges are then re-filled or the plastic is melted and re-used. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
- Clothes/ Shoes / Handbags / Belts
 

Currently we service 30 textile banks in the Ballymoney, Coleraine and Limavady Council areas.  
 
They are situated at:
 

Ballymoney Council

  • Balnamore
  • Ballybogey
  • Cloughmills
  • Clintyfinnan
  • Crosstagherty CA site
  • Dervock
  • Dunloy
  • Glebside Spar
  • Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre
  • Killyrammer
  • Knock Road CA site
  • Milltown Spar
  • Newal Road Mace
  • Rasharkin
  • Stranocum
  • Tesco
  • Trolans Super-Valu

 

Coleraine Council

  • Ballysally
  • Coleraine CA site
  • Castlerock
  • Garvagh CA site
  • Macosquin
  • Portrush CA site
  • Portballintrae
  • Portstewart

 

Limavady Council 

  • Ballykelly
  • Drumsurn
  • Dungiven
  • Limavady CA site
  • Magilligan

 

Ballymena Council
      • Broughshane

 

 

The textiles are then taken to our premises to be sorted.  All the good quality items collected by Can Can, are either sold on e-bay or they are sent to our charity shop, Can Can Bazaar, which is based in Main Street, Ballymoney. 
Poor quality items are sent to Third world countries for re-use, or shredded and used as cotton wipers for industry.