Where your recycling goes?
Below is a breakdown of what happens to the recycling you put out for collection, and where it goes. Middlesbrough Council sends all it's recycling for reprocessing in the UK.
| Material | Transfer station | Processing / transport details | End user / reprocesser |
| WRL, Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough | Separated, baled and delivered direct to Novelis | Novelis, Latchford Locks Works, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 1NP | |
| WRL, Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough | Colour separated and delivered direct to Berrymans (now owned by Ardagh) | Ardagh Plants, Doncaster and Knottingley | |
| Wards Recycling Limited (WRL), Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough | Delivered direct to Bridgewater Mill | Bridgewater Paper, North Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 1AF | |
| WRL, Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough | Paper Banks serviced by WRL, material taken to the Middlesbrough facility for onward shipment to Bridgewater Mill | Bridgewater Paper, North Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 1AF | |
| WRL, Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough | Separated and delivered to T. J. Thompsons Stockton - on - Tees | Corus Steel, Lackenby Works | |
| WRL, Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough | Bagged and collected by Salvation Army | Salvation Army Trading, Dennington Road, Dennington Ind Est, Wellingbrough NN8 2QH |