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The Other Mike wrote:

The idea of sorting it all out and then having the council ship it off to a
landfill dump in a third world country is also antisocial.

Following all the bad press about this, our council published some info
on where their recycling goes (assuming you believe them :-)).

Batteries go to Belgium to Revatech

Food waste goes to Maidstone (so 40mins or so away)

mixed recycling goes to rainham (maybe 30-40 miles?) and is sorted
and processed. Plastics turned into pellets there. Cans sent to Llanelli
(bit of a trek!). Aluminium to Warrington or Redditch.

Glass heads to Dagenham or South Kirby. Card to Erith.

Garden waste goes to Capel-le-Ferne (about 2 miles away) where is it
composted on a farm. This is why no food waste is allowed in there. It used
to be allowed, but now any suggestion of food waste and the foot and mouth
rules that came in bans it from being carried onto the farm site. (apparantly
no idea how true that is). Also the reason Knotweed and Ragwort are not
allowed?

Apparantly the "landfill" bin no longer goes to landfill, but is sent to
be incinerated and generate power. No idea where...

Assuming this is really what happens then it's not too bad IMO.

Darren