To minimize our carbon footprint we send material to local processors where ever possible. The good quality of our material helps us to get the best possible prices which keeps costs down for the council tax payers.
Glass goes to a Yorkshire processor and is turned back into jars and bottles.
Aluminium goes to the main UK re-processor in Warrington where it is melted down and eventually turned into new cans or even car and plane parts.
Steel is sent to Corus ( formerly British Steel) and is a perfect recycle product. It can be used over and over again for thousands of uses.
Plastic bottles are baled up and sent to a UK distributor. They are washed, shredded and melted and moulded into a huge variety of new items -
furniture, clothing, cladding, containers - just for starters.
Juice containers go to Tetra Pack in Sweden, so far the only plant in Europe which can separate the different elements in the cartons and recycle them for other uses.
Textiles and footwear go to a Bradford firm who sort and grade them. Some are sent to third world countries for re-use and the rest recycled for other purposes.
