Our Household Recycling Items Used To Get Processed In China. Where Now?

[Al Bundy]

5 minutes ago, Draggletail said:

Seems like they're getting paid to recycle the waste but are burning or dumping it in their country  instead.

Without doubt.

[Al Bundy]

7 minutes ago, geared said:

Yea, I seem to remember it was a specific village, trucks would just turn up and dump waste, a local wonders over and sets it ablaze.

 

Organised crime, no outsiders allowed in and all that.  Journalists tracked UK 'recycling' items making there way over there.

Definitely.

 

Can you remember the village name?

[BigPP]

Does no one on here know how to use Google?

 

https://www.sheffield.veolia.co.uk/hwrc-what-happens-waste#:~:text=Paper and Card is sorted,into other plastic based products.

 

Paper and Card is sorted at our Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and then taken to newsprint or board mills in the UK where it is made into new paper and card products.

 

Plastics are collected and sent for recycling locally where they are shredded and turned into other plastic based products

 

Aluminium and Metals are separated out into aluminium and steel. Aluminium is recycled into new products in Warrington. The steel is recycled in Sheffield.

 

Glass bottles and jars are taken to a site in Yorkshire where it is melted and used to make new bottles, jars or aggregate. The recycled glass is used in the UK and exported abroad.

[geared]

17 hours ago, Al Bundy said:

Definitely.

 

Can you remember the village name?

oh lord no it was some time ago they did the report, I'm not sure they stated it in the first place to be honest.