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Description: A node to show where you can take waste for recycling. Google definition User discussion

Element: help

Useful combination: Key:name Key:operator

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Used combinations in: Europe France Germany Italy Netherlands Spain Turkey Great-Britain Switzerland

Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Discussion 1.2 Other useful information 1.3 Vote 1.4 Post-vote discussion

Summary

A node to show where you can take waste for recycling. It can have further data on the materials you're able to take there:

• recycling:batteries=yes/no
• recycling:books=yes/no
• recycling:cans=yes/no
• recycling:cardboard=yes/no
• recycling:clothes=yes/no
• recycling:cork=yes/no
• recycling:engine_oil=yes/no
• recycling:glass=yes/no
• recycling:glass_bottles=yes/no (usually they allow bottles but not other glass items)
• recycling:green_waste=yes/no
• recycling:hardcode=yes/no
• recycling:magazines=yes/no
• recycling:mobile_phones=yes/no
• recycling:music=yes/no
• recycling:newspaper=yes/no
• recycling:paper=yes/no
• recycling:plastic=yes/no
• recycling:plastic_bags=yes/no
• recycling:plastic_bottles=yes/no (often they allow bottles but not other plastic items!)
• recycling:printer_cartridges=yes/no
• recycling:scrap_metal=yes/no
• recycling:shoes=yes/no
• recycling:tyres=yes/no
• recycling:white_goods=yes/no (fridges, freezers, ovens, microwaves, TVs, etc.)
• recycling:wood=yes/no

(please expand this list)

Discussion

There's a good list of what can be recycled at [http://www.recyclenow.com/what_more_can_i_do/can_it_be_recycled/], but I don't know quite how many of them we'll want to record

• My rationale is to add a new item if I find a recycling point that has a specific facility for it. For example, you'll often be able to recycle glass bottles but it's rare to find a place where you can recycle sheets of glass, so it's worth having that information properly defined. TomChance 18:10, 19 September 2006 (BST)
  • I think that depends on how big the recycling centre is. I'm pretty sure the Redbridge recycling centre in Oxford takes sheets of glass! It's a fair bet though that if it isn't on the recyclenow list, recycling centres won't take it. Gagravarr 20:37, 19 September 2006 (BST)
    • Well precisely, my point is that we need enough granularity to accurately describe each recycling centre. It wouldn't be much use if you thought "recycling:glass=yes" implied the centre takes glass sheets, if it actually just did bottles :) Knowing where to take recyclable stuff in your local area is a very handy feature we can offer over and above that which many local councils, businesses, universities etc. offer. We can then use the recyclenow list as a guide, and people can amend the list of recycle:keys when they find new/different facilities.

I agree that having a recycling centre marked on the maps is good, but disagree that this level of information is appropriate in OSM. -- Dom 11:59, 24 September 2006 (BST)

• Can you explain why? I'm already finding it useful for some maps I've wanted to produce for a while now. TomChance 12:58, 24 September 2006 (BST)

So, what exactly does this node mean? Only recycling centres or also containers? In Germany there are many containers, perhaps more than post boxes. I don't think it is a good idea to draw each of those on the map. At least not with such a big symbol. Beebop 11:16 03 August 2007

I've been mapping every recycling point, whether it's a couple of bins on a street or a major recycling centre. We could introduce a second tag - amenity=recycling_centre - to distinguish them. The way they're rendered on the maps at the moment is entirely appropriate IMO, but that tag could show up on lower zoom levels as well? TomChance 10:36, 3 August 2007 (BST)

I am using amenity=recycling as area for recycling parks = location where you can bring your waste (like old furniture, garden waste) --Rubke 11:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Other useful information

Probably more for the larger centres

• opening hours
• phone number

Vote

I'll vote against this, see why : [1] --Bartv 08:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• I approve this proposal. MikeCollinson 04:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. User:David.earl 12.40, 19 December 2006 (UTC). It is already rendered in osmarender!
• I approve this proposal. Gagravarr 13:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --KristianThy 13:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Batchoy 14:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --SlowRider 16:04, 06 January 2007
• I approve this proposal. --Jammeh 14:57, 14 January 2007
• I approve this proposal.--Alban 08:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. TomChance 20:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Post-vote discussion

• From the above discussion, in the U.K. 'recycling banks' can be found on the odd treet corner where a large bin has been placed, about the height of a man. These would be good to map, just like postboxes, it can be hard to know where your nearest one is and important if you don't have a car. In Germany I remember seeing the public bins were split in 4 and I had to drop my crisp wrapper in the right hole. Very good to be that environmental but not worth mapping. Something needs to distingush the small drop of points to the much larger ones (often with tips/refuse-transfer places) that you'd probably go to in the car because you've stored up several weeks of recycling. I would propose some sort of size tag? - LastGrape 14:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Often the recycling bins are for different coloured glass bottles. I don't know if they generally have the same selection of colours, is it worth tagging which ones? - LastGrape 14:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Could we have areas rendered as well? Here in Italy we have many dropping point for furniture, ectronics and so on.. --EdoM (lets talk about it) 09:43, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I agree, do we need a vote to extend this to areas? I've been using this fairly extensively already. --Thomas Wood 17:40, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
    • I've done these as highway=service;area=yes with a node amenity=recycling in the middle. Osma renders the area, mapnik doesn't. A dedicated area makes sense, though. I was looking for one, before I decided to use what I wrote earlier. --Ldp 21:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)