Recycling Rates

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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?

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Carrie-Anne Bainbridge,

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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Carrie-Anne Bainbridge

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