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...