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What your materials are turned into

All the materials we collect for recycling are turned into other products and not sent to landfill.

Your collected materials get recycled into:

• plastic bottles (green recycling box)- various facilities turn bottles into new plastic products
• newspapers and magazines (green recycling box)- Aylesford Newsprint turn newspapers and magazines into new rolls to be used for newsprint
• cans and foil (green recycling box)-various facilities turn cans and foil into new cans and foil products
• aerosol cans (green recycling box)- Novelis Recycling turn aerosol cans into new can sheet
• brown, green and clear glass (green recycling box)- Days Contracting Ltd at Brentford turn glass into brown, green or clear glass containers
• engine oil (green recycling box)- Eco Oil turn engine oil into low grade oil for generators
• household and car batteries (green recycling box)- G & P Batteries separate batteries into fractions and reprocess them into new batteries or reuse them as raw materials e.g. scrap metal and plastic
• textiles and shoes (green recycling box)- Wilcox direct re-use textiles and shoes in the developing world or shred them into cotton and felt mops and dusters
• the Yellow Pages (green recycling box)- Aylesford Newsprint reprocess the Yellow Pages into many different products including cardboard, loft insultation and animal bedding
• organic waste (green organic bin)- West London Composting turn organic waste into compost
• garden waste (bio-sacks)- West London Composting turn garden waste into compost
• cartons (recycling sites)- Bywaters separate the materials from the cartons and send them on for reprocessing
• cardboard (Reuse and Recycling Centre)- Taplow Mill in Maidenhead turn cardboard into fluting to go inside cardboard boxes
• fluorescent tubes (Reuse and Recycling Centre)- Mercury Recycling at Trafford Park in Manchester or at Bushey crush and hammer the glass and then sent it to a glass manufacturer (it can also be used as "slack" for lining the base of incinerators). The phosphorous powders are separated and distilled which separates the mercury. The mercury is sold on and reused by lighting manufacturers. The phosphorous powder is landfilled as the dangerous mercury has been removed. The end caps are separated and are melted down
• fridges (Reuse and Recycling Centre)- Techno Waste (part of the Cool Rec Group) de-gas the fridges (the CFCs, which destroy the ozone layer, are removed). Once the gases are removed 98 per cent of the weight of the fridge can still be recycled. The rest of the fridge is shredded. Four main components are: ferrous metal; non-ferrous metal; plastics which is used to make bins; foam which is made into fine powder to use to mop up spillages by the Fire Brigade.