What happens to mixed dry recycling?
Mixed dry recycling is taken to a regional materials recovery facility where the items are separated and sent to be recycled. Your recycling is transformed into the recycled items you can buy in the shops. For example it takes just seven days to recycle paper into newsprint. Cans – are taken to Glazewing Limited in Norfolk for sorting into steel and aluminium, before being made into new cans. Recycling cans saves huge amounts of energy and resources – recycling an aluminium can uses only 5% of the energy and produces only 5% of the CO2 compared to making a new one, and steel cans be recycled indefinitely. ยป See the Blue Peter join a recycling collection video explaining what happens to recycling on the Greenstar web site.
