Plastic Recycling Rates

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Dear East Devon District Council,

Can you please let us have details of what has happened to your plastic recycling for the last three financial years viz 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18? What percentage is recycled, what percentage is incinerated and what percentage goes to landfill and the total number of tons for each category? Is black plastic a problem for you?

Many thanks

Yours faithfully,

RadioExe

East Devon District Council

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East Devon District Council

Dear sir,

Thank you for your request for information. Please find the response to your query below.

Can you please let us have details of what has happened to your plastic recycling for the last three financial years viz 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18?

In the last three years our plastics have been sent to the following processors at various times:

Monoworld
Viridor Waste Management
Lovell Recyling
Midwest Recycling
Roydon Polythene
SUEZ Avonmouth MRF

Total tonnages sent to processors are:

2015/2016 plastic bottles 528.18 tonnes
2016/2017 plastic bottles 757.10 tonnes
2017/2018 plastic bottles 1055.44 & mixed plastics 399.85 tonnes

What percentage is recycled, what percentage is incinerated and what percentage goes to landfill and the total number of tons for each category? - We do not hold this data. It would have to be provided by the processors. In general teams any rejects from the processors' operations would be sent to Energy from Waste (EfW)

Is black plastic a problem for you? - We collect black plastics in our mixed plastics. Black plastic collected in this way is sent onto our processors with the mixed plastics and is rejected at the processing stage. Black plastic rejected at processing stage is sent to EfW. We make it clear to customers that any black plastics collected as part of our mixed plastics will be rejected as described. If customers ask if they can put black plastics in their refuse bins we tell them that they can do so if they wish and explain that it will go to our local EfW plant.

I hope this information is helpful but, if you feel dissatisfied with the way we have responded to your request, please contact our Monitoring Officer, Mr Henry Gordon Lennox, to request an internal review [email address]

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Yours sincerely,

Sara

Ms S Harvey
Information and Complaints Officer
East Devon District Council

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