Plastic

Plastic bottles, pots, tubs & trays 

Where are they taken?

Plastics are collected from the kerbside mixed with other recycling. It is taken to a materials recovery facility (MRF) in the UK where it is sorted into individual waste streams before being transported for recycling.

Find out more about Materials Recovery Facilities here.

What happens to them?

Once separated out at the MRF, the plastic is sent for grading and recycling at the following places:

• Cello Recycling Ltd, Lancashire
• Biffa GS Environmental Limited, Walsall
• Monoworld Limited, Bedfordshire

End market

UK.

End products

Reprocessed into more recycled plastic products.