Plastic

Plastic bottles, pots, tubs & trays 

Where is it taken?

Landor Street materials recovery facility & Various UK recycling plants.

What happens to it?

Plastics are collected from the kerbside mixed with metals and glass. They are taken to a materials recovery facility in Birmingham where plastics are separated from other waste streams and transported for recycling. Find out more about Materials Recovery Facilities here. 

Plastics are taken to a number of locations in the UK for recycling where they are processed into new plastic products depending on their plastic type. See list of destinations below:

• J. and A. Young (Leicester) Limited, UK
• Clean Tech, UK
• Veolia Environmental Services, UK
• Monoworld Recycling, UK
• Roydon Resource Recovery, UK
• Brightgreen Plastics, UK 

End market

UK.

End products

Plastic bottles - recycled plastic (PET) products.

Plastic pots, tubs & trays - Food containers, other plastic products.