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10 Issue 55 • July 2021

CLEANER, GREENER WORCESTER

What

happens to

my rubbish?

We go on a mission to track

what happens to the waste you
put in your bin.

In recent years, there’s
been a huge drive to
encourage us all to
recycle and re-use
more. But how can we
be confident that the
rubbish in our bins is
being put to good use?

First, let’s start with the
basics – what exactly
should go in the green bin?
• Plastic packaging which is
a bottle, pot, tray or tub
(not black plastic)
• Paper, card, cardboard
and cartons (squashed flat)
• Glass bottles and jars your green bin is taken the county. Severn Waste metals and glass. They are
• Steel and aluminium cans to EnviroSort, a facility is responsible for safely then despatched for further
• Items put in the green bin based in Norton. disposing of anything you processing at a range of
should be free from food put in your green or black plants based in the UK.
EnviroSort is run by bin at home, or anything
WHO COLLECTS Severn Waste Services you take to a Household Everything in the
YOUR WASTE? (www.severnwaste.com), Recycling Centre. green bin is sent for
Your bins are collected a company contracted by reprocessing unless it is
every week by staff from Worcestershire County At EnviroSort, the materials a ‘contaminant’ – an item
Worcester City Council. Council to dispose of are separated into batches which cannot be recycled
From there, waste from domestic waste across of plastics, cardboard, in the kerbside collection,

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