The Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Facility, run by Norcal Waste Systems, is open three days a week and serves 10, 000 to 12, 000 customers annually.

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More than 40 tonnes of household plastic has been recycled through a trial scheme at Guernsey's recycling facility at Longue Hougue.

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Because it involved storing the stuff somewhere in your house or garage until you got around to making a trip down to a local recycling facility, where they paid you maybe pennies on the pound for whatever your household had accumulated, or maybe they paid you nothing but good feelings.

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