Recycling Rates
Dear Exeter City Council,
Can you please let us have details of what has happened to your plastic recycling for the last three financial years please 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,
Radio Exe
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Thank you for your request for information.
The information you have requested is as follows:
Where does it go? What does it get made into?
- Plastic milk bottles: various UK destinations, to be turned
into food-grade plastic packaging production.
- Clear plastic bottles: various UK or European destinations.
Due to the high quality we produce, we can sell it for bespoke food-grade
packaging production.
- Mixed coloured plastic bottles; plastic pots and tubs; broken
wheelie bins, fishing crates, plastic drums, etc.: various UK
destinations, to be flaked for industrial container production.
- Plastic bags and film: various UK or European destinations, to
be pelleted for manufacturing
Below is a list of all of the processors that we send the material for
recycling to. All of the material that we send to the processors is
accepted for recycling. Black plastic is not a problem for us.
2015/16: 1029.04 tonnes
HDPE: JA Young; Monoworld; Eurokey; Viridor; Regain
PET: JA Young; Viridor; Jayplas; Eurokey; Greenway
JAZZ: JA Young; Viridor; Greenway
FILM: Plasrecycle
PTTs: Greenway; JA Young; PPS Recovery System
SCRAP BINS: Wessex
2016/17: 993.89 tonnes
HDPE: Monoworld; JA Young; Roydons; Viridor
PET: Roydons; JA Young; Monoworld; Viridor
JAZZ: Roydons; Greenway
FILM: Palasrecycle; JA Young; Monoworld
PTTs: Roydons; Eurokey; Greenway; Nevis
SCRAP BINS: Luxus; SWM
2017/18: 990.24 tonnes
HDPE: Viridor; JA Young; Materials Recovery Ltd.
PET: Roydons; Empire Recycling; Young; Clearpoint Rec.
JAZZ: Viridor; Monoworld
FILM: Vanden; Go 4 Greener; Enerj8 Polymers Limited
PTTs: Roydons; Viridor; Young; Plasgran Ltd.
SCRAP BINS: Vanden
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Kind regards
Carrie
Carrie-Anne Bainbridge
Policy Officer
Executive Support
Direct Line 01392 265875
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