What happens to my recycling?

After your recycling is collected it is taken to our new, bigger and better sorting facility, called EnviroSort, which has opened near Worcester.

The sorting process is outlined below, you can view an animation of what goes on inside EnviroSort; from the moment materials are delivered into the plant from the EnviroSort website.

1. The recycling delivered to EnviroSort is loaded onto conveyors where it is first checked by hand to remove anything which shouldn’t be there.

2. A vibrating machine then separates the flat things, like paper and card, from the rest of the recycling.

3. The paper and card is then further sorted before being baled.

4. The cans, plastics and glass bottles then pass under a magnet which removes the steel cans and tins.

5. Plastic bottles, pots, trays and tubs are separated using special scanners.

6. Aluminium cans are removed using eddy current separators.

7. The remaining glass jars and bottles drop off the end into a large container.

8. Once sorted, the separated materials are sent for recycling.