Where does my recycling go?

Recycling material destinations map

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Recycling material destinations table

Material	Where does it go?	What is it made into?	Learn more
Kerbside Collections
	Composting Site Pitsea, Essex	Topsoil and soil impover and sold through the Recycling Centres for Household Waste
	Glass Recycler South Kirby, West Yorkshire, UK	New glass bottles & jars
	Textile Sorter & Recycler  Benfleet, Essex	Reusable clothing to the Developing World; non-reusable clothing to industrial rags
	Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) Hockwold, Suffolk	Pink Sack material is sorted here before taken to recyclers for recycling, see below.
(post MRF)	Can Recycler Warrington, Cheshire	New aluminium cans and aluminium products
(post MRF)	Cardboard Recycler & Manufacturer  Sittingbourne, Kent	New cardboard packaging
(post MRF)	Paper Recycler & Manufacturer  Shotton, Flintshire	New paper products, mainly news print
(post MRF)	Plastic Recycler Oakham, Leicester	New plastic packaging
(post MRF)	Can Recycler Canning Town, London	New steel cans and other steel products
	Scrap Metal Merchant  Benfleet, Essex	New metal products
Recycling Bank Collections
	Textile Sorter & Recycler  E16, London	Reusable clothing to the Developing World; non-reusable clothing to industrial rags
	Carton Bulker  Bow, E3, London Exported to Sweden	Fibre and plastic for the packaging industry
Non-recyclable Collections
	Landfill Site  Pitsea, Essex	NOT RECYCLED  Buried in the ground