What happens to your pink sacks?
May bank holiday
Refuse/Recycling collections will be one day late on the week of 6 May due to the bank holiday. Please present your waste before 7am one day later than your usual collection day. Please note: this does not affect country round residents
What happens to your pink sacks?
What happens after your pink sacks are collected?
- You place your recycling together in pink sacks, making recycling as easy as possible for you.
- Pink sacks are collected from you tiped at a transfer station in Rochford, they are then bulk hauled to a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF).
- At the MRF all the materials are sorted back into the different materials and baled ready to be sent for recycling.
- The materials are then recycled back into new products, e.g. a new plastic bottle or a new newspaper ready for you to buy and use again. This takes place in UK and further afield
How is it recycled:
