What happens to your recycling?
Different reprocessing companies take your sorted recycled materials to produce new items including everyday items like recycling glass bottles, and tomorrow’s newspapers.
All your recycling efforts makes a real difference – and each type of waste collected has an identified end market (correct as of December 2009, and subject to change).
Glass: is recycled to produce fibreglass products, flooring and aggregates.
Paper and magazines: are recycled into new newspapers, magazines, pamphlets paper stock and some lower grade paper stock.
Steel cans: are melted to remove impurities and made into other steel cans/products.
Aluminium cans: are sheddred, melted down and recycled back into aluminium products.
Plastic bottles: are recycled to produce numerous products including new plastic bottles, pipes, fibres, food trays etc.
Cardboard: is pulped and recycled to produce new cardboard and cardboard packaging products, lower grade paper products and animal bedding.