Details of aluminium recycling costs and tonnage
Request received 3 February 2026
- Do you currently operate a segregated or commingled kerbside collection service for dry recyclable materials?
- Do you have a policy or directive that specifies that all your kerbside-collected dry recycling materials should be recycled in the UK?
- Please specify if there are different policies for different materials.
- For aluminium specifically,
- Who sorts and recycles your aluminium for you?
- If outsourced, please specify the company or organsation?
- Is your aluminium recycled in the UK?
- How much annual income do you derive from the sale of recycled aluminium?
- Does this income subsidise, or make a substantial contribution to, the cost of your whole recycling programme?
- What would be the impact to your overall recycling programme if you lost your entire aluminium recycling income?
- Would you have to increase your Council Tax to compensate for such a loss?
- Are you a member of any local authority waste management partnership?
- If so, which one?
- Does it operate its own Materials Recovery Facility?
- Does it have a policy or directive to ensure that aluminium is recycled in the UK?