What happens to your recycling
Recycling rates and where it goes
We recycled 48% of all the waste we collected (from homes and recycling sites) in Waverley in December 2011. This means that we are in the top 10 dry recyclers in the country! (Dry recyclables are all the materials we take except garden and food waste).
Find out what happens to the mixed recycling and food waste once we collect it from the kerbside and from our recycling sites.
The Surrey Waste Partnership
The Surrey Waste Partnership is made up of the county's eleven borough and district councils and Surrey County Council. We aim to manage Surrey's waste in the most efficient, economic and sustainable way possible.
In 2006 the Surrey Waste Partnership endorsed a strategic plan for waste management in Surrey. It set out a vision for managing Surrey's waste through to 2025 and incorporated significant targets for reducing and recycling waste.
The strategy was recently updated. It incorporated higher recycling targets, to reflect the excellent progress being made in Surrey, and noted recent developments in waste treatment technologies. We invited residents to comment on the strategy in a public consultation held between May and August 2010.
The strategy was amended to reflect the responses received in the public consultation. This Council's Executive then reviewed and endorsed the revised strategy at its meeting on 7 December 2010.
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Further pages in What happens to your recycling
- Recycling rates and where it goes
- Household collections
- Food waste collections
- Recycling banks
- Cans and aerosols at recycling sites
- Cardboard collections at recycling sites
- Cartons at recycling sites
- Foil collections from recycling sites
- Glass collections from recycling sites
- Paper collections from recycling sites
- Plastic bottle collections from recycling sites
- Plastic packaging at recycling sites
- Shoes and textiles at recycling sites