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Mel Kirkpatrick says that she will sit to dispose of their children with old children, to pay up a recycling System starts

For Mel Kirkpatrick, 25 years of storage of your children's old car seats is a small price to pay, for its disposal, is responsible.

"We recycle everything," the retired midwife, says. "I steadfastly refuse to have Our Children 's car seats in landfills. "

After moving into a smaller house in Northamptonshire, Six Years ago, Mel, 63, and her husband, unwanted possession rid of it, But struggled to shift their five children seats.

"I held that the [you] for 25 years, it is no hardship for me to depend on you for [more] if you are going to be properly recycled. "

Mrs. Kirkpatrick is one of A Number of parents who have struggled to seats to recycle their old children.

requires that the children to the use of an EU child seat up to 12 years or 135 cm tall, whichever comes first, i.e. the UK-could go families by at least two or three different seats.

But what happens to sit with The Car , if they are no longer needed and how they can be disposed of in a sustainable way?

Can it be recycled?

Auto-recycle child seats hard to come by, because they are made of a mixture of materials - rigid plastic, metal and Fabric strongly bonded to the high loads to resist.

It may be possible to disassemble manually, to remove, to separate recyclable items - But this takes a lot of time and effort.

The Royals have to say the children's seats to keep your little one safe on The Road

Simon Ellin, chief executive of the Recycling Association, it has to create has been difficult for the manufacturer to, is a fully recyclable car seat, while still protecting the safety of The Child .

So, what's happening in your seat if you leave it out, your garbage or take it to the tip or recycling centre?

The Answer varies, depending on where you Live and the possibilities of waste recycling, the company, on behalf of the municipality.

In some cases, it will create at the end of in an incinerator that burns the waste materials, during the recovery of any metals.

In other, recyclable items such as metal and plastic can be removed from the seat first.

elsewhere, the old children's seats are destined for the landfill.

The system in your area is a "postcode lottery operates, basically," he says, But you can call your municipality to check.

combustion is The Most efficient method, according to Mr. Ellin, But critics argue that it is, and recycling could be deterred.

you Can sell it or give it away?

charity and reuse shops do not usually accept used children's car seats, and parents, of which you are advised not to buy second-hand due to security fears.

This is because, unless you know a seat's history, you can't be sure it was not damaged in an accident.

Even if it looks good, it is invisible internal damage that could not, could a child is At Risk the safety, to

A second-hand seat without the Assembly instructions could also says children in danger, Robin Osterley, chief executive of The Charity Retail Association (CRA), as it is used properly.

However, it is not illegal to sell second-hand car seats online, listings, available, the on known sites.

Or you might be able to pass it to A Family member. But if you had the space for a while, that might not be a good idea, according to experts, as the children's seats have a "shelf life date".

the time scales differ between manufacturers, But The Good Egg car safety website, "is a recommendation from the Americas, which was adopted in the whole of Europe".

What parents do and say?

Kayleigh Powell, a 32-year-old mother of two from Newbury, in Berkshire, says her children are five and three, are already seven seats.

Kayleigh Powell, pictured with her son, Finlay, has launched a petition for a recycling System

Out of "sheer frustration", she launched a petition that asked in February to help retailers and manufacturers, a "clear and understandable" recycling System, similar to those tested In America .

"I think it is sad that these companies make a lot of money from the parents-and grandparents - seem blind to the provision of any type of circular economy," she says.

A target to make the maximum use of objects of design that minimize waste, then reuse and recycling.

Kayleigh with one of the many car seats of your family has been prohibited by

in the Meantime, Alison Adamson, 37,, your family is not trying To Live sustainably, to recycle, to be able to your son car seats disturbed "really".

But with little storage space, Mrs Adamson, says The Family , from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, had no choice But to bin them at your local tip.

she says: "This is a big, bulky child seats sitting in our garage and we could not in really in with it. "

Mrs Adamson asked The Local fire and police stations, if you want to use the seats for the training, But was told they couldn't bring them in.

this Will be easier?

An organization, in the hope to make a difference is Worcestershire-based car-seat-design-company JMDA, the leader of a recycling System in March of last year.

He gained 30 seats and put them in scrap cars, and then by a recycling company industrial shredder.

The seats " of the different Elements were separated according to their materials: the metals were sold and re-used; The Plastics were converted into pellets for reuse in the molding process, and the materials were burnt to produce electricity to produce.

trying to Roll Out the idea nationwide in the barriers.

JMDA approached major brands and retailers for the backup, But the talks have stalled due to difficulties with the "cost-effectiveness".

The company's creative and Managing Director , Derrick Barker, says: "If the retailers don't save some money, you will the situation not change your system, and if the recycling does not earn the company some money, you will not go and collect it, so that you are sitting in this deadlock. "

He thinks, The Key is demand, for the government, for all child safety seats will be recycled, forcing manufacturers and the Council, waste disposal service providers to make proper plans on how this should be done and how it should be financed.

Cllr David Renard, the environment spokesman for The Local government Association (LGA), meanwhile, the seat manufacturer is of the essence to use, to facilitate recycling by including the "recyclable items", which are easier to remove when the seats are ready.

What do the manufacturers and the dealers?

The BBC contacted to ask the largest manufacturers and retailers of what they did. Most of the people not for comments for publication.

BeSafe, a Norwegian children's seat designer, he said recently, all of the Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is removed from the packaging and had begun to get out of his car seats.

the EPS used in car seats for shock-absorption, and After , "can be successfully recycled, where facilities exist", But "currently not recycled in the world".

of course, the exchange of EPS for polypropylene has cells, which she said were "fully recyclable" and "durable".

John Lewis & partners, meanwhile, says to reduce it to "and re-use where possible", But added that it was "unable to accept aware of all the recycling facilities in the UK, that car seats for children".

And Peter Andrews , head of sustainability at The British Retail Consortium, said: "consumers want to do The Right thing, and it is up to the government so that the infrastructure keeps pace with this. "

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Source of news: bbc.com