What happens to our recycling

Newspaper and magazines

Newspapers, magazines and catalogues are taken to a local bulking station before being transported onwards for processing by Aylesford Newsprint.

Aylesford have produced a video which explains the process in detail (please note the video will take a few minutes to load)

• paper recycling video

Food and drink cans

Mixed cans are taken to a plant where they get separated, then get melted and sold as ingots to the industry to create anything from more cans, biscuit tins, parts of cars and planes.

• more on can recycling

• can recycling video (courtesy of Corus)

Glass bottles and jars

Apart from being melted to make more glass packaging, there are many other uses for glass, such as road construction

• more on glass recycling

• glass recycling video (courtsey of British Glass)