Greenstar Recycling Facilities

The site’s strategic location enables it to process recyclables collected from over 185,000 households. Commingled collections from up to 19 local authorities pass through our fully automated dual stream facility which sorts and processes plastic, glass and metal cans, and bulks paper and cardboard.

We offer a cost-effective quality processing of recyclables collected by local authorities as well as commercial customers, Skegness handles commingled materials – primarily paper, plastics, steel and aluminium containers.

The west Yorkshire facility mainly recovers and recycles pre and post consumer paper and cardboard products, but also handles around 20,000 tonnes of commingled plastics, steel and aluminium cans. The site provides waste collection and recycling services for the region’s industrial and commercial sector.

The Redcar site is one of the most advanced plastics processing facilities in Europe. This means all types and grades of plastic can be sorted, cleaned, processed and compounded for local, European and international markets. This includes converting waste HDPE plastics into food grade material for milk bottles (currently found in M&S organic milk bottles), food trays and cosmetics bottles – a world first. The site was awarded a Queen’s Award for innovation in April 2009.

The Dunstable materials recycling facility handles around 50,000 tonnes of of waste and recyclable materials annually, sourced from commercial and industrial customers. Its annual recycling output is around 15,000 tonnes of paper, card, glass, timber, plastic and steel, and it also operates a 5,000 tonne pa capacity aluminium can recycling centre.

Aldridge is Britain’s largest materials recycling facility, and one of the biggest in Europe. This impressive plant has a processing capacity of up to 300,000 tonnes annually. Use of the latest technology and processing equipment means Aldridge can accept commingled and segregated recyclables sourced from local authorities and commercial customers, and process them to high quality standards.

Atlas will be one of the capital’s largest materials recycling facilities (MRF) which will process nearly 10% of north London’s waste.

Adjacent to major transport links such as the North Circular and the M25, the site will be fitted out with the most modern technology for the high quality processing of recyclable materials.

Atlas is licensed to process up to 250,000 tonnes of recyclables annually, as well as handling a further 250,000 tonnes annually through its waste transfer station.

The facility will be designed to process both domestic and commercial dry recyclables such as paper, cardboard, plastic, metal and glass containers, textiles and other materials.