Recycling is a very important part of the strategy, as it allows us to extract materials from the waste stream and recover value from them. Recyclables such as paper, card, cans and plastic bottles which we receive via kerbside collection schemes will be sorted at a materials recovery facility and sent for reprocessing into new products.

The materials recovery process
Dry recyclables are deposited in separate storage areas. Newspapers and magazines, cardboard, junk mail and paper packaging are unloaded in one area and cans and plastic bottles in another. Both streams are pre-sorted to remove any non recyclable items and then sorted by material into cardboard, newspaper and magazines, mixed paper and card, aluminium, ferrous metal and mixed plastic. These products are then transported to specialist companies for recycling into new products, such as newsprint, clothing and new food and drink cans.

What you can do
Make use of your local kerbside recycling collection, deposit recyclables at your local Bring Banks and make use of your Household Waste Recycling Sites.

What happens to your recycling?
In Brighton & Hove, we are responsible for making sure that the material collected through the black box kerbside scheme is recycled into new products. Click here to find out what happens to it, as well as what happens to the material which is collected at the area’s household waste recycling sites.

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