Your recycling and what happens to it
Ards and North Down

Ards and North Down

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Choose financial year
53%
Recycling rate
Total waste per person
524kg
Residual waste per person
248kg
Total recycling per person
123kg
Total compost per person
152kg

Household waste recycling centres

Balloo Recycling Centre

Balloo Recycling Centre
54.639825, -5.666252

Newtownards Recycling Centre

Newtownards Recycling Centre
54.6021546, -5.691801798

Comber Recycling Centre

Comber Recycling Centre
54.544138, -5.766528

Holywood Recycling Centre

Holywood Recycling Centre
54.641005, -5.838677

Ballygowan Recycling Centre

Ballygowan Recycling Centre
54.544119, -5.766507

Millisle Recycling Centre

Millisle Recycling Centre
54.608287, -5.531211

Donaghadee Recycling Centre

Donaghadee Recycling Centre
54.642506, -5.531926

Kircubbin Recycling Centre

Kircubbin Recycling Centre
54.48873637, -5.526641745

Portaferry Recycling Centre

Portaferry Recycling Centre
54.385566, -5.542429

In total

All materials
45k
tonnes of waste was recycled

Savings

Selected materials
£5m
saved by recycling instead of disposal

Climate change impact

Selected materials
16k
tonnes of CO2 emissions was avoided

Top 5 UK recycling destinations

1
17,532t
Food and Garden Waste
2
Natural World Products (NWP) Recycling Ltd
County Armagh, Northern Ireland
4,979t
Food and Garden Waste
3
Encirc (formerly Quinn Glass)
County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
4,504t
Glass
4
UPM Kymmene (UK) Ltd
Shotton, Wales
4,130t
Paper
5
2,402t
Food and Garden Waste

Where does your recycling go?

Top countries (selected materials: Dry Recyclables) - 2022/23

Glass


Amount recycled
4,504t
CO2 avoided
3,400t
Disposal saving
£508,909
Reported as exported
0%

Top destinations

Metal


Amount recycled
1,764t
CO2 avoided
4,480t
Disposal saving
£199,325
Reported as exported
81%

Top destinations

Paper


Amount recycled
7,069t
CO2 avoided
3,867t
Disposal saving
£798,834
Reported as exported
41%

Top destinations

Plastic


Amount recycled
1,996t
CO2 avoided
1,072t
Disposal saving
£225,594
Reported as exported
19%

Top destinations