Recycling FAQs
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Q: What can be recycled in the orange sacks/banks?
Q: What can’t be recycled in the orange sacks and recycling banks and why?
Q: What happens to recycling during collection and sorting?
Q: Why isn’t a food waste collection provided?
Q: Why is the recycling collected mixed together in the orange sacks and recycling banks?
In order to make recycling as easy as possible for residents materials are collected mixed together. This means that you don't have to worry about sorting materials and can store materials all in one place in your home rather than having separate containers.
The materials are sorted at a materials recovery facility before being made into new products. This seems to be working well. After the orange sack system was launched tonnages of recycling more than doubled which meant that people had started recycling more.
Q: How can I recycle materials that aren't collected through the orange sacks or recycling banks?
Q: Where does the recycling end up?
Q: Can I recycle envelopes with windows?
Q: Can I recycle shredded paper?
Q: Can I recycle aluminium foil?
