What happens to my waste?



Waste and recycling collected from your bins at home and what you take to the recycling centre is either recycled, made into compost or even turned into electricity!

 

Every single plastic bottle, every glass jar and every piece of paper you recycle in your bins at home is recycled into something new. Every blade of grass, every eggshell and teabag you recycle is made into compost. Even some of the things that you can’t recycle are turned into something that we use everyday…electricity!
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COULD YOU WASTE LESS?



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