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!
Find out how below…

Wide angle shot of a composting facility. A number of large composting vessells with walkway down the middle.

Food and Garden

wide angle shot of Materials Recovery Facility. Conveyor belts of recycling in motion.

Mixed Recycling

Overview of a Greater Manchester Recycling Centre. People unloading recycling from cars.

Recycling Centres

Large mechanical claw handing over piles of general waste at the Viridor 'Energy from Waste' facility in Runcorn.

What happens to my general waste?

A bale of paper and card recycling bound together with cables

What happens to my paper and card?

Recycling A-Z Guide

Recycling Centres

How do I waste less?

Learning and activities

COULD YOU WASTE LESS?

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