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    • FOI request (FOIR-128559091)

      Plastic recycling

      Requested Wed 03 July 2019
      Responded Fri 19 July 2019


      1) As far as the Council is aware, was any of the plastic collected in 2018 by the Council’s Recycling Collection Services ultimately exported to be recycled outside the UK?

      2) If yes, please provide the names of all companies that were responsible for exporting this plastic?

      3) Does the Council have any estimation of how much plastic was exported outside the UK during 2018? If so, please provide this in terms of tonnes of plastic exported.

      4) Does the Council know which countries plastic was exported to during 2019? If so, please provide this. 



      NB: if the Council is unable to provide answers for all these questions, please nevertheless provide as much as possible

      Response

      Q1 - Yes

      Q2 - Information not held

      Q3 - This figure is for the whole county not just Hastings Borough Council- 5,695.49 tonnes was exported- bearing in mind nearly 264,000 tonnes of total recycling was collected in 2018

      Q4 -  

      Turkey

      Portugal

      Spain

      Greece

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