Food waste

Your food waste is sent to the Codford Bio gas facility in Wiltshire. Biogas is a type of biofuel that is naturally produced from the decomposition of organic waste, a process known as anaerobic digestion.

Garden waste

Your garden waste collected in your green wheelie bins is sent to the Deepmoor Windrow Composting Site near Torrington. The site gives compost away in bulk (lorry/tractor trailer load), please contact Lyn Chadwick on 07528 349944 for more information.

Glass

Glass is sent by ship to Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire then it is transferred Knottingley, West Yorkshire where it is reprocessed into new glass jars and bottles. 

Mixed plastics 

Mixed plastics are transported to South Normanton, Derbyshire where they are sorted in to various plastic streams.

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles are sent to the processing plant at Corby, Northamptonshire and are turned into food packaging.

High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) milk bottles are transferred to another processing plant in Loughborough, Leicestershire where they are made into plastic ”bags for life” and refuse sacks.

Paper

Paper is transported to Kings Lynn, Norfolk where it is processed into paper rolls which is then used within the newspaper and printing industry.

Aluminium

Aluminium is transported to a number of smelting plants within the UK where it is processed and then used within the aerospace industry.

Steel

Steel is transported to a number of smelting plants within the UK where it is processed and turned into sheet steel and then sold to various industries.

Cardboard

Cardboard is transported to a local depot in Barnstaple, where it is then bulked with other cardboard and sent to a number of UK paper mills where it is processed and made back into linerboard which is used to manufacture corrugated cardboard.

WEEE

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are bought by a company that takes them apart and sells the component parts.

Textiles

Textiles are passed onto the Salvation Army, which exports more than 34,000 tonnes of textiles for reuse and recycling each year.

An estimated £140 million worth (350,000 tonnes) of used clothing goes to waste in landfill every year. Clothing made from natural materials like cotton, wool and leather will produce a range of greenhouse gases while biodegrading in landfill sites. For every tonne of textiles reused rather than sent into landfill, carbon dioxide emissions – a major cause of global warming – are reduced by 7 tonnes.

Non-Recyclable waste

Since February 2019 all but a small fraction of waste from North Devon and Torridge's household waste that cannot be re-used, recycled or composted has been diverted away from landfill and sent to the waste transfer site, operated under contract from Devon County Council by Suez. From there it is transferred to the energy recovery centre in Cornwall where it is used as a sustainable fuel to generate electricity for the National Grid.