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What Happens to my recycling?


Have you ever wondered what happens to your recycling once it has been collected from your property?

Once the different materials have been sorted at the PURE Material Recovery Facility near Ettington, they are transported off to various locations to be reprocessed into other things, examples include:

Material Destination New product
Paper & cardboard

Palm Print, Kings Lyn

Corrugated cardboard

Aylesford Newsprint, Kent

Newsprint
Misson Recycling, Evesham Cardboard packaging
Holmen Paper, Sweden Newsprint
Plastics AWS, Lincolnshire Plastic bottle
Jayplas, Corby Plastic food packaging
Glass Brinklow Quarry, Rugby Road surfacing material
Berrymans, Doncaster Glass jar
Recresco, Warrington Glass bottle
Aluminium cans Novelis, Warrington Drinks can
Alutrade, West Midlands Drinks can
Steel tins Corus, Port Talbot Food tin

For more information about the process the materials go through, the video below shows what happens...

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Stratford-on-Avon District Council
Elizabeth House, Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire CV37 6HX

Tel: 01789 267 575
Fax: 01789 260 007
Minicom: 01789 260 747

Printed 04 February 2012 at 09:07 hrs by 38.107.179.214

Stratford on Avon District Council