Recycled materials routes (FOI)

​​Request

Please advise what happens to the below materials that are separated for recycling at the recycling centre or collected at the Parish level: 

• Metal
  
• Paper
• Plastic
• Cardboard 
• Glass

Response

The requested materials are processed as detailed below once they have been received at the Household Recycling Centre, Bring Banks or collected by Parish kerbside schemes.

Metal

Metal is taken to the Government of Jersey waste metals facility at La Collette where it is combined with other received ferrous metal and transported to the UK (Portsmouth) for separation into the different grades. 

The Ferrous and Non-Ferrous will then be sold for further processing by metal type. 

Paper

Paper is taken to Abbey Waste, the Government of Jersey’s recycling service provider on-Island, who bale and ship the material to UK processing mills that produce paper with recycled content for the UK paper industry.

Plastic

Plastic is taken to Abbey Waste, the Government of Jersey’s recycling service provider on-Island, who bale and ship the material to UK processing mills that produce plastic with recycled content for the UK plastic industry.

Cardboard

Cardboard is taken to Abbey Waste, the Government of Jersey’s recycling service provider on Island, who bale and ship the material to UK processing mills that produce paper / card with recycled content for the UK paper / card industry.

Glass

Glass is taken to AAL Recycling Limited at La Collette who receive the glass and produce a recycled glass sand aggregate for the Jersey market.  A percentage of the glass is shipped to the UK for processing into recycled glass products.