Recycling rate
65%
Total waste per person
489kg
Residual waste per person
173kg

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
22k
tonnes of waste was recycled
Savings
Selected materials
£2m
saved by recycling instead of disposal
Climate change impact
Selected materials
10k
tonnes of CO2 emissions was avoided

Top 5 UK recycling destinations

1
5,448t
Organic Waste
2
Blue Phoenix Group
Bourne, England
2,685t
Incinerator Bottom Ash
3
Ardagh Group
Wakefield, England
2,142t
Glass
4
2,037t
Rubble and aggregate
5
Llwyn Isaf
Llanllyfni, Wales
2,035t
Organic Waste

Where does Wales’ recycling go?

Top countries (selected materials) 2023/24

Glass

Glass icon

Amount recycled
2,142t
CO2 avoided
1,617t
Estimated disposal saving
£242,019
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations

Metal

Metal icon

Amount recycled
1,559t
CO2 avoided
3,959t
Estimated disposal saving
£176,148
Reported as exported
8%

Top destinations

Organic Waste

Organic waste icon

Amount recycled
7,484t
CO2 avoided
374t
Estimated disposal saving
£845,639
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations

Paper

Paper and cardboard icon

Amount recycled
2,440t
CO2 avoided
1,335t
Estimated disposal saving
£275,704
Reported as exported
7%

Top destinations

Plastic

Plastic icon

Amount recycled
1,029t
CO2 avoided
551t
Estimated disposal saving
£116,224
Reported as exported
1%

Top destinations

Textiles

Textil icon

Amount recycled
285t
CO2 avoided
1,663t
Estimated disposal saving
£32,248
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations