Where Does My Recycling Go?

Where Does My Recycling Go?

Garden Waste
Garden waste service is collected and composted by Appletons, a local company based in Tolleshunt Major. Collected green waste is then composted at the site, sold to local businesses and used by the council for parks and green spaces.

Bottle Banks
Bottle bank glass goes to Berrymans in Dagenham to be reprocessed along with tins and cans. Please see the download area for a list of all recycling banks in the area.

Textile Banks
Textile banks either go to Salvation Army or L M Barry, a textile recycling company based in London. They also provide textile recycling in primary schools as a part of an educational programme.

Paper Banks
Paper banks are run by Aylesford Newsprint. Many collections are done by Green Recycling, a local business, who are sub-contracted by Aylesford. The paper goes from the banks straight to Aylesford based in Kent where paper will be processed into newspaper in a matter of days.

Collection
Enterprise MRS collects the recycling from households, where material is sorted at the road side. The material is either taken to Essex Reclamation in Witham or Boreham recycling plant in Chelmsford.

Paper collected on the kerbide is bounded by Essex Reclamation and again goes to Aylesford Newsprint. The card is also bound here.

The mixed glass goes to Boreham in Chelmsford along with the cans and tins to be crushed and bounded to be sold to the market.

The drive to keep good quality recyclable material out of landfill is increasing each year. Not only is there a strong market to sell the materials to but each local authority will be heavily penalised for exceeding the stated limit of volume of waste entering landfill.

Maldon District has always come well below the allowance level of waste entering landfill, but with limits lowered each year, an increasing amount of waste produced and recycling targets raised there is still a lot to do.