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Household and garden chemicals and paints

Where is it taken?

Red Industries, Brownhills, West Midlands.

What happens to it?

Chemicals are reprocessed on site at Brownhills and other UK chemical reprocessing facilities used for more specialist chemicals. Materials unable to be recycled undergo high temperature incineration.

End market

UK

End products

Reprocessed hazardous chemicals to be used in the manufacturing process.

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