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Recycling rate
63%
Total waste per person
468kg
Residual waste per person
171kg

Recycling service

Isle of Anglesey County Council (IoACC) provides a weekly kerbside-sort collections service for recycling. This means it collects recyclable materials in separate containers.

It collects:

  • food waste every week, from a brown caddy using caddy liners provided by the Council for free; 
     
  • dry recycling every week, from a Trolibocs unit comprising three boxes, allowing residents to separate their:
     
    • glass bottles and jars, and cardboard,
    • metal cans, tins, aerosols and foil, and plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, and
    • paper and textiles; and
       
  • household batteries, ink cartridges and mobile phones every week, from a reusable white pouch clipped onto the Trolibocs handle.

IoACC also collects:

  • garden waste every two weeks, from a green wheeled bin, from homes registered for this chargeable service; 
     
  • nappies, every three weeks in single-use sacks, from homes registered for this free service. Residents may also put nappies in their black wheeled bin for non-recyclable waste; and
     
  • non-recyclable waste every three weeks, from a black wheeled bin.

The Council provides a bulky waste collections service for large items. To find out how much this service costs, or to book a collection, residents should visit the Council’s website.

The Council manages two Household Waste Recycling Centres. Residents should visit the Council's website to check if they need to book an appointment before they visit a site. 

Visit Isle of Anglesey County Council's website.

Household waste recycling centres

Gwalchmai Recycling Household Waste Centre

Gwalchmai Recycling Household Waste Centre
53.2592, -4.42402

Penhesgyn Household Waste Recycling Centre

Penhesgyn Household Waste Recycling Centre
53.2451, -4.19899

In total
All materials
21k
tonnes of waste was recycled
Savings
Selected materials
£2m
saved by recycling instead of disposal
Climate change impact
Selected materials
11k
tonnes of CO2 emissions was avoided

Top 5 UK recycling destinations

1
5,008t
Organic Waste
2
Ardagh Group
Wakefield, England
2,309t
Glass
3
unspecified
Bourne, England
2,197t
Incinerator Bottom Ash
4
Llwyn Isaf
Llanllyfni, Wales
2,120t
Organic Waste
5
Romiley Board Mill
Stockport, England
1,628t
Paper

Where does Wales’ recycling go?

Top countries (selected materials) 2022/23

Glass

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Amount recycled
2,311t
CO2 avoided
1,745t
Estimated disposal saving
£261,160
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations

Metal

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Amount recycled
1,830t
CO2 avoided
4,648t
Estimated disposal saving
£206,792
Reported as exported
5%

Top destinations

Organic Waste

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Amount recycled
7,142t
CO2 avoided
357t
Estimated disposal saving
£807,037
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations

Paper

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Amount recycled
2,416t
CO2 avoided
1,322t
Estimated disposal saving
£273,040
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations

Plastic

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Amount recycled
994t
CO2 avoided
533t
Estimated disposal saving
£112,373
Reported as exported
1%

Top destinations

Textiles

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Amount recycled
310t
CO2 avoided
1,806t
Estimated disposal saving
£35,011
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations