Environmental Services
05 : 50 am |10th September 2010

BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET- AUDIT TRAIL – UPDATED OCTOBER 2008

 

WHAT HAPPENS TO ITEMS COLLECTED FOR RECYCLING OR REUSE?

 

DESCRIPTION

REPROCESSOR

REPROCESSING

Brown Glass

O/I Manufacturing

Reprocessed into glass containers

Aluminium Cans  Foil

R Freeths

Reprocessed into new cans/foil products

Engine oil and filters

Feakins Oil Recovery

Oil reprocessed into low grade fuel oil for generators etc

Green Glass

O/I Manufacturing

Reprocessed into glass containers

Household and car batteries

G & P Batteries

Separated into fractions and re–processed into new batteries, or reused as raw material i.e. scrap metal and plastic

Steel cans

Sims

Reprocessed into new steel products

Paper

Aylesford Newsprint

Reprocessed into paper etc

Textiles and Shoes

WMP Wilcox

Direct re-use in developing world or shredded to be made into cotton/ felt/ wadding/ mops/ dusters and industrial wiping cloths

White Glass

O/I Manufacturing

Reprocessed into glass containers

Yellow Pages

Aylesford Newsprint

Reprocessed into paper etc

Plastic Bottles

JMP/Recoup/Baylis

Sorted into fractions and used as raw materials

Printer cartridges

Action Aid

Sorted into fractions and used as raw materials

Spectacles

Action Aid

Direct re-use in developing world

Mobile phones

Action Aid

Sorted into fractions and used as raw materials