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1Cardboard
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2Electricals
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3Food
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4Garden waste
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5Glass
Plastic
Plastic bottles, pots, tubs & trays
Where are they taken?
Plastics are collected from the kerbside mixed with other recycling. It is taken to a materials recovery facility (MRF) in the UK where it is sorted into individual waste streams before being transported for recycling.
Find out more about Materials Recovery Facilities here.
What happens to them?
Once separated out at the MRF, the plastic is sent for grading and recycling at the following places:
PET Bottles and Trays
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Clean Tech UK Limited |
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60.06% |
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Caygeb Plastik Kagit Metal Geri Donusum Nak. San. Tic. Ltd |
Sti., Cumhuriyet Mah. 2334/9 Sk. No: 9/A Gebze Kocaeli Turkiye |
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39.94% |
HDPE Natural
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Veolia ES (UK) Limited |
Dagenham Plastics,Choats Road,Dagenham Dock,Essex,RM9 6LF |
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100.00% |
Mixed Plastics
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Brightgreen Plastics |
Allerton Bywater Business Park,Newton Lane,Allerton Bywater,Castleford,WF10 2AL |
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100.00% |
MRF Film
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CJM Recycling Limited |
Stephenson Street Willington Quay Wallsend NE28 6UE |
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100.00% |
End market
UK / Turkey
End products
Reprocessed into more recycled plastic products.
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