Where are Gloucestershire's materials recycled?
Below you can find out more about where materials from Gloucestershire's Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) are recycled.
Material |
Contractor |
End Destination(s) |
What happens to the material? |
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Books
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Reuseabook |
Worldwide |
An environmentally-friendly enterprise that uses the internet to sell second-hand books worldwide. |
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Cans
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
Celsa Manufacturing UK Ltd |
Processed through the Hammer Mill at Moreton Valence with the ferrous going to a steel mill in South Wales (Celsa Manufacturing UK Ltd). |
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Cardboard
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PW Commercial Co. Ltd T/A Printwaste Recycling & Shredding |
Turkey, |
The market for recycled fibres is a global one, and the demand for export grade, quality cardboard is much higher in regions such as Asia. |
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Car batteries
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
H J Enthoven T/AS ECOBAT Logistics, West Midlands |
The lead and plastic is separated and the battery acid made safe. The car battery you recycle will typically be used to make more car batteries. |
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Cooking oil
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Living Fuels |
Thetford, Norfolk |
Cooking oil is sent to Living Fuels a state-of-the-art recovery facility in Thetford to be cleaned and reprocessed. Once recovered it becomes an environmentally friendly bioliquid used to generate carbon-neutral electricity for UK homes and businesses. |
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Engine oil
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Slicker |
Stourport-On-Severn, Worcestershire. |
The waste oil collected is processed to create a reusable product called Processed Fuel Oil (PFO): an environmentally compliant alternative to virgin fuel. |
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Green garden waste
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Enovert |
Hempsted, Gloucester |
100% of the processed material is used for capping off and landscaping on adjacent landfill sites. |
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Green garden waste
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Hills Waste Solutions |
Parkgate Farm, Purton, Wiltshire |
Certified to BSI PAS 100 standard, Hills Compost is made from local green waste that is brought to Hills’ recycling complex at Parkgate Farm, Purton where it undergoes a rigorously monitored process. The raw material is first finely shredded, then stacked in what we call ‘windrows’ and constantly turned and moistened as necessary to speed up the decomposition process, which takes some 12 weeks. The end product has to meet strict rules in order to adhere to the requirements of Renewable Energy Assurance Limited (REAL) who has accredited Hills Compost. |
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Green garden waste
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MF Bennion |
Dymock, Gloucestershire |
The bulk of the compost is used on Bennion's own arable farm, with other local farms utilising the soil improver as a substitute for some synthetic fertilisers on their land. |
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Flat glass
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
URM Ltd t/a Berrymans Tilbury / Knottingley |
This material is processed at URM’s plants ready for Remelt to Float or Container Glass. |
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Gas bottles
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Envik |
Bridgend |
The bottles are returned to the manufacturers who inspect and refill the bottles for redistribution. |
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Metals
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
Derbyshire |
All non-ferrous is sorted, processed and graded then added to other tonnage onsite and sold accordingly to several outlets such as: |
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Mixed glass
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
URM Ltd t/a Berrymans Tilbury / Knottingley |
The UK Targets 67% of glass waste to be processed to Remelt grade and 33% to aggregates. |
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Paper
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
Casepac, Leicester |
Paper and card recycled by Casepak is supplied to paper mills and used by the following industries: |
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Plasterboard
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
New West Gypsum Rec Ltd, Somerset |
Gypsum is one of the few materials in the world that can be recycled with zero degradation to the final product. All the gypsum recycled by NWGR goes back to the plasterboard manufacture to make more plasterboard. |
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Plastic bottles
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
Monoworld Recycling Facility, Bedfordshire |
HDPE bottles are reprocessed into HDPE Recycled granules for supply into UK plastics manufacturing. |
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Rubble
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
Moreton Valence, Glos. |
Smiths (Gloucester) Ltd. Moreton Valence are the end disposal outlet as we turn the waste into an aggregate product using the WRAP Protocol. |
https://www.smiths-gloucester.co.uk/services/waste-management/recycled-aggregates-topsoil/ |
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Rubble / soil
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Enovert |
Hempsted, Gloucester |
Hardcore, rubble and soil are sent to Hempsted (Gloucester) and Wingmoor (Bishops Cleeve) landfill sites. The soil is often used as topsoil when capping off and landscaping landfill sites. The hardcore is broken down and used as aggregate in the construction industry, often in road building. |
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Textiles
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Wilcox Textile Reclaimers |
Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia |
Clothes, textiles and shoes are taken to Wilcox Textile Reclaimers. They are a family-owned group involved in the reclamation, processing and export of fine quality clothing to Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. They work with charities, local authorities and waste reclamation companies and have developed new systems using using a automated sorting system combined with over 200 highly trained staff to ensure the maximum possible amount of clothing can be reused. Anything that is not suitable for re-wear and cannot be reused is prepared for recycling and is re-purposed for use as insulation, carpet underlay or wiping cloths. |
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Tyres
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Smith's (Gloucester) Ltd |
SITR Midlands Associates Ltd, Cheltenham |
SITR bale tyres to conform to PAS 108 standards. The PAS was designed to provide a specification for producing compact tyre bales of a consistent and verifiable quality and dimension. Producing quality bales for use in civil engineering and using the most environmentally friendly options available. |
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Wood
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Jack Moody Recycling |
Meriden, West Midlands |
Waste wood is processed into wood chip for use in biomass heating systems. Jack Moody also recycle wood back into the panel board industry. |
