Recycling for Southend

To do this, it’s really important to remember to put anything that can be recycled into your pink sacks or blue box and anything that’s food waste into your blue bin and not in black sacks. Remember we can collect your textiles or small electrical items at the kerbside too!

Black sack waste is only to be used for anything the recycling containers cannot accept as this waste is not recycled.

How can you increase recycling in Southend?

You can reduce the amount of waste you produce by reusing items around your home. Before you throw an item away why not see if you could reuse it or repair it?

To make a real difference to our environment we work on the waste principles set out by WRAP.

What happens to my recycling?

Pink sacks are taken to a Materials Recycling Facility where they are split and sorted into their different types. These are then sent on to different reprocessors where they are made into new things.

Paper and card is taken to a reprocessor to be recycled into more paper and card!

Your food waste is taken to a compost site or an anaerobic digester. Anaerobic digestion is a form of biological treatment which digests food waste in a biological reactor.

Recycling is just one way of reducing residual waste. Reducing the amount of waste produced can really help, and also save you money! Take a look at some hints and tips here.