Pages in What happens to your recycling
- 1. What happens to your recycling
- 2. What happens to your food recycling
- 3. What happens to your paper and card recycling
- 4. What happens to your mixed recycling
- 5. What happens to your garden waste
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6. Recycling textiles and shoes
Items are reused wherever possible, including removing buttons and zips were appropriate. The fibres from remaining materials are recycled into things like rags, car parts or insulation.
Although the contractor that manages our textile recycling, a-tex UK, is based in Gatwick, materials are processed in Germany.