Newport

Recycling rate

60%

Total waste per person

470kg

Residual waste per person

189kg

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

43k

tonnes of waste was recycled

Savings

Selected materials

£3m

saved by recycling instead of disposal

Climate change impact

Selected materials

13k

tonnes of CO₂ emissions was avoided

Top 5 UK recycling destinations

1	Viridor Waste (Somerset) Ltd, Bridgwater, England	6,449t Organic Waste
2	Biogen, Aberdare, Wales	3,753t Organic Waste
3	Recresco Ltd, Cwmbran, Wales	2,738t Glass
4	UPM Kymmene (UK) Ltd, Shotton, Wales	2,532t Paper
5	J and A Young Ltd, Corby, England	1,125t Plastic

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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)

Glass

Amount recycled 3,965t

CO₂ avoided 793t

Estimated disposal saving £424,231

Destinations

	Recresco Ltd, Cwmbran, Wales
	URM (UK) LTD, Wakefield, England
	Glass Tech Recycling Ltd, Llandarcy, Wales
	URM (UK) LTD, Thurrock, England

Metal

Amount recycled 1,782t

CO₂ avoided 4,384t

Estimated disposal saving £190,677

Destinations

	Celsa Group, Cardiff, Wales
	Unspecified, Pakistan
	European Metal Recycling Ltd, Cardiff, Wales
	Novelis, Appleton, England
	Morris and Co Ltd, Blaenhonddan, Wales

Organic Waste

Amount recycled 11,599t

CO₂ avoided 696t

Estimated disposal saving £1,241,057

Destinations

	Viridor Waste (Somerset) Ltd, Bridgwater, England
	Biogen, Aberdare, Wales
	Phoenix Green Solutions, Frampton Cotterell, England
	Biogen, St Asaph, Wales
	Biogen, Atherstone, England

Paper

Amount recycled 7,162t

CO₂ avoided 2,435t

Estimated disposal saving £766,281

Destinations

	UPM Kymmene (UK) Ltd, Shotton, Wales
	Anhui Shanying Paper Industry Company, Anhui, China
	DS Smith, Sittingbourne, England
	Smurfit Kappa, Snodland, England
	Nine Dragons Paper Industry (Dongguan) Co. Ltd., Guangdong, China

Plastic

Amount recycled 2,696t

CO₂ avoided 1,564t

Estimated disposal saving £288,441

Destinations

	J and A Young Ltd, Corby, England
	Jayplas, Loughborough, England
	GD Environmental Services Ltd, Alway, Wales
	AMF Polymers, Cwmbran, Wales
	Unspecified, Poland

Textiles

Amount recycled 420t

CO₂ avoided 2,516t

Estimated disposal saving £44,945

Destinations

	JMP Wilcox and Company Ltd, Wednesfield, England
	Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd, Wellingborough, England
	Oxfam, Southampton, England
	British Heart Foundation, Esher, England
	Envic Recycling , Bridgend, Wales

Waste electrical and electronic equipment

Amount recycled 803t

CO₂ avoided 145t

Estimated disposal saving £85,916

Destinations

	Sims Group UK Ltd, West Bromwich, England
	Sims Group UK Ltd, Allt-yr-yn, Wales
	Mekatek Ltd, Llanharan, Wales
	Unspecified, Alway, Wales
	Mercury Recycling Ltd, Urmston, England