Plastic recycling
Case reference FOI2019/00759
Published 23 July 2019
Request
1) As far as the Council is aware, was any of the plastic collected in 2018 by the Council's Recycling Collection Services ultimately exported to be recycled outside the UK?
2) If yes, please provide the names of all companies that were responsible for exporting this plastic?
3) Does the Council have any estimation of how much plastic was exported outside the UK during 2018? If so, please provide this in terms of tonnes of plastic exported.
4) Does the Council know which countries plastic was exported to during 2019? If so, please provide this.
Response
1) As far as the Council is aware, was any of the plastic collected in 2018 by the Council's Recycling Collection Services ultimately exported to be recycled outside the UK?
Yes
2) If yes, please provide the names of all companies that were responsible for exporting this plastic?
Biffa Waste Management
3) Does the Council have any estimation of how much plastic was exported outside the UK during 2018? If so, please provide this in terms of tonnes of plastic exported.
From tonnage reports, 9.12 tonnes of plastics were exported for recycling outside of the UK in 2018.
4) Does the Council know which countries plastic was exported to during 2019? If so, please provide this.
During one month of 2019 only some of our plastics were exported to Slovakia and Spain. No other exports have been reported in other months.
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