Recycling Services

Metals

A. Brunton can manage and handle all grades of both Ferrous and Non Ferrous metals. This is undertaken through associated partners.

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The UK produces 24 million tonnes of aluminium yearly.

51,000 tonnes of which ends up as packaging in the UK.

If we recycled all cans in the UK, we would need 14 million fewer dust bins.

We throw away £36,000,000 worth of aluminium each year.

Aluminium cans if recycled can be ready to use in 6 weeks.

 

Plastics

Plastics are still primarily used for packaging. As a result in this respect experience strong consumer attention. We are an accredited processor of plastics. Handling all types from post consumer, post industrial and production stock materials.

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The UK uses 275,000 tonnes of plastic each year, that’s about 15 million bottles per day.

Most families throw away about 40kg of plastic per year. Which could otherwise be recycled.

The use of plastic in Western Europe is growing about 4% each year.

Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose.

 

Cardboard & Paper

A Brunton can recycle and collect most types of cardboard and paper. This can encompass solid fibreboard like the material used to make cereal boxes. Likewise food boxes used to store frozen food. This includes office paper, magazines, print, envelopes and tissue papers.

 

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Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.

12.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard are used each year in the UK.

The average person in the UK gets through 38kg of newspapers per year.

It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper.

 

Wood

All types of wood can be recycled including pallets, packing and shipping cases. Recycled wood products can have so many new uses:

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Landscaping products – natural and decorative mulches

 

Surfacing material for pathways

Play surfaces

Equestrian surfaces

Animal bedding products – horse bedding, poultry bedding, cattle bedding

Domestic pet bedding

Cat litter

Wood chip for biomass fuel.

 

Glass

Each UK family uses an average of 500 glass bottles and jars.

The largest glass furnace produces over 1 million glass bottles and jars per day.

Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again.

Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills will never decompose.