Environmental Services
08 : 43 am |9th September 2010

HACKNEY AUDIT TRAIL  – UPDATED OCTOBER 2008

What happens to the items collected for recycling and re-use?

 

DESCRIPTION

REPROCESSOR

REPROCESSING

 

 

 

Brown Glass

O-I Group

Reprocessed into glass containers

Cans  Foil

AMG Llanelli,

Reprocessed into new cans/ foil products

Cardboard

Newport Paper

Cardboard reprocessed into similar or other paper/ board materials

Engine oil and filters

M2 Environmental Services

Oil reprocessed into low grade fuel oil for generators etc

Green Glass

O-I Group

Reprocessed into glass containers

Green Waste

London Waste Ltd

Material is composted

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

Kitchen Waste

London Waste Ltd

Material is composted using ‘in vessel’ system

Paper & Yellow Pages

Aylesford Newsprint

Reprocessed into newsprint paper

Textiles and Shoes

LM Barry

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

Clear Glass

O-I Group

Reprocessed into glass containers

Plastic bottles

JFC Delleve

Reprocessed into plastic

Comingled material

Veolia via London Waste Ltd

Separated into material streams and reprocessed