Newport

Recycling rate

66%

Total waste per person

482kg

Residual waste per person

162kg

Recycling Service

Newport City Council offers a weekly kerbside-sort recycling service using two recycling boxes and one bag: a red bag for plastics, cans and foil; a green box for cardboard, cartons and glass jars; and a blue box for paper, small electrical items and clean textiles. The service is run by Wastesavers on behalf of the council.

Food waste is also collected weekly with the council providing liners and a food caddy.

Batteries can be recycled in partnership with ERP UK Ltd at Newport Market, local libraries or the Wastesavers Reuse Centre.

The council also provides a bulky household item collection service for furniture and large WEEE for £6 per item. Wastesavers Community Furniture Shop will also collect good quality furniture.

Garden waste in orange-lidded green bins and rubbish bins are collected fortnightly, on alternate weeks.

The council operates one household waste recycling centre.

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Household waste recycling centres in Newport

Newport Household Waste Recycling Centre

In total

All materials

50k

tonnes of waste was recycled

Savings

Selected materials

£5m

saved by recycling instead of disposal

Climate change impact

Selected materials

21k

tonnes of CO₂ emissions was avoided

Top 5 UK recycling destinations

1	Newport City Council, Allt-yr-yn, Wales	7,948t Organic Waste
2	Neal Soil Suppliers Ltd, Cardiff, Wales	6,175t Rubble and aggregate
3	Biogen, Aberdare, Wales	4,325t Organic Waste
4	Day Aggregates, Bristol, England	4,030t Incinerator Bottom Ash
5	Recresco Ltd, Cwmbran, Wales	4,024t Glass

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Where is your recycling going to?

Top 10 countries (selected materials)

Where is your recycling going to?

Top 10 countries (selected materials)

Absorbent Hygiene Products

n/a

Batteries

Amount recycled 4t

CO₂ avoided 2t

Estimated disposal saving £427

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	G and P Batteries Ltd, Walsall, England

Carpet

Amount recycled 198t

CO₂ avoided 0t

Estimated disposal saving £22,345

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Endurmeta Ltd, Flintshire, Wales
	Tidysite Skip Services Ltd, Staffordshire, England
	Equi Elite Surfaces Ltd, Great Aycliffe, England
	Sundorne Products (Llanidloes) Ltd, Llanllwchaiarn, Wales

Furniture

Amount recycled 279t

CO₂ avoided 0t

Estimated disposal saving £31,556

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Reuse Shop, Allt-yr-yn, Wales
	Wastesavers and EInclusion Recycling, Alway, Wales

Glass

Amount recycled 4,310t

CO₂ avoided 3,276t

Estimated disposal saving £487,028

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Recresco Ltd, Cwmbran, Wales
	GD Environmental Services Ltd, Alway, Wales
	Neal Soil Suppliers Ltd, Cardiff, Wales

Incinerator Bottom Ash

Amount recycled 4,301t

CO₂ avoided 0t

Estimated disposal saving £486,036

Reported as exported 0.38%

Destinations

	Day Aggregates, Bristol, England
	Carbon8 Aggregates Limited, Bristol, England
	Day Group Limited, Hounslow, England
	Tekniskaverken I Linkoping AB, Linkoping, Sweden
	MVV Environment Devonport Ltd, Plymouth, England

Metal

Amount recycled 2,359t

CO₂ avoided 5,992t

Estimated disposal saving £266,591

Reported as exported 28%

Destinations

	unspecified, Pakistan
	Celsa Group, Cardiff, Wales
	Novelis UK Ltd, Warrington, England
	European Metal Recycling Ltd, Cardiff, Wales
	A S M Metal Recycling Ltd, Aylesbury, England

Organic Waste

Amount recycled 13,980t

CO₂ avoided 839t

Estimated disposal saving £1,579,709

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Newport City Council, Allt-yr-yn, Wales
	Biogen, Aberdare, Wales
	Biogen ( U K) Ltd, Bedford Borough, England
	Biogen, North Somerset, England
	Biogen, St Asaph, Wales

Paper

Amount recycled 6,869t

CO₂ avoided 3,778t

Estimated disposal saving £776,232

Reported as exported 45%

Destinations

	UPM Kymmene (UK) Ltd, Shotton, Wales
	SAICA Paper UK Ltd, Partington, England
	Julius Schulte Schone GMBH and Co, Dusseldorf, Germany
	Hamburger Reiger Gelsenkirchen GmbH and Co, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
	Silverton Pulp and Paper Ltd, Uttar Pradesh, India

Plastic

Amount recycled 3,125t

CO₂ avoided 1,688t

Estimated disposal saving £353,160

Reported as exported 2%

Destinations

	Jayplas, Loughborough, England
	Jayplas, Corby, England
	Plasgran Ltd, March, England
	GD Environmental Services Ltd, Alway, Wales
	AWD Group, Bryn, Wales

Rubble and aggregate

Amount recycled 6,204t

CO₂ avoided 0t

Estimated disposal saving £701,017

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Neal Soil Suppliers Ltd, Cardiff, Wales
	Derwen, Blaenhonddan, Wales

Textiles

Amount recycled 780t

CO₂ avoided 4,549t

Estimated disposal saving £88,168

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	JMP Wilcox and Company Ltd, Wednesfield, England
	Endurmeta Ltd, Flintshire, Wales
	Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd, Wellingborough, England
	Oxfam, Southampton, England
	Tidysite Skip Services Ltd, Staffordshire, England

Waste electrical and electronic equipment

Amount recycled 779t

CO₂ avoided 140t

Estimated disposal saving £87,975

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Sims Group UK Ltd, West Bromwich, England
	Sims Group UK Ltd, Allt-yr-yn, Wales
	Mekatek Ltd, Caerphilly, Wales
	Sims Group UK Ltd, Nottingham, England
	unspecified, Alway, Wales

Wood

Amount recycled 3,227t

CO₂ avoided 936t

Estimated disposal saving £364,642

Reported as exported 0%

Destinations

	Norboard, Bishops Nympton, England
	unspecified, unspecified, Unspecified
	Kronospan Ltd, Ruabon, Wales
	Newport Pallets and Timber, Alway, Wales
	Countrystyle Recycling Ltd, Sittingbourne, England