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In the UK, we have a system set up for our household waste to be recycled, where I live this takes the form of pre-sorting for glass/plastic/metal, paper/card, and for composting food waste, alongside general household rubbish.

My question to you is:

Can the plastic and metals GW make their models from be recycled, as there's a number of old sprues with bits on, and a number of broken/damaged models that I'd rather not "just" throw away.

Thanks in advance for any help on the matter.

From what I recall GW's plastic can be recycled. Maelstrom games is known to collect old sprues and plastic kits for recycling purposes.

As for the pewter GW uses, don't know. My dad (who works in the metals industry) commented on it saying that it is of a low quality, comparing it to metal production refuse left over from their processes.

But plastic is plastic and metal is metal, amirite?

Well, just a second; why not just use them to make barriers and the like? Round the corners on sprues just a little and glue them in stacks to make rudimentary walls, use a bit of cardstock with them to make ruined houses, so on. I found out just a couple days ago that recycling is bullshit anyways, more resources are spent in having a separate vehicle picking it up, sorting, storing, cleaning and reapplied, another truck moving everything between each part of the process. Hell, the bleaching and cleaning of used papers is more harmful than just cutting down trees; we grow tree farms for paper, after all.

Why even throw all those sprue and bitz into the recycling bin? USE that s**t! If you need an Idea, I've made an instructional video (my first one, so it's probably cringe-worthy at times) on Czech Hedgehogs made from sprue, including razor wire to wrap around them (too bad I can't embed the video into the post in a guild apparently...).

Much better than throwing that in the recycling bin.

After I get an Ott Lite, I'l probably film one for low walls, then one for larger structures from larger versions of those walls, one for latticework, maybe one for vehicle frames,..