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FOI/EIR 25/26-518-Aluminium Recycling
Details of aluminium recycling costs and tonnage
Request received 3 February 2026
- Do you currently operate a segregated or commingled kerbside collection service for dry recyclable materials?
- Do you have a policy or directive that specifies that all your kerbside-collected dry recycling materials should be recycled in the UK?
- Please specify if there are different policies for different materials.
- For aluminium specifically,
- Who sorts and recycles your aluminium for you?
- If outsourced, please specify the company or organisation?
- Is your aluminium recycled in the UK?
- How much annual income do you derive from the sale of recycled aluminium?
- Does this income subsidise, or make a substantial contribution to, the cost of your whole recycling programme?
- What would be the impact to your overall recycling programme if you lost your entire aluminium recycling income?
- Would you have to increase your Council Tax to compensate for such a loss?
- Are you a member of any local authority waste management partnership?
- If so, which one?
- Does it operate its own Materials Recovery Facility?
- Does it have a policy or directive to ensure that aluminium is recycled in the UK?
Responded 3 March 2026
1. Comingled
2. No
3.
a. Biffa Waste Services.
b. Please see answer above (a)
c. Please see waste data flow (https://www.wastedataflow.org/Register.aspx) for the tracking of our aluminium. This is a publicly accessible document.
d. The income derived specifically from the sale of recycled aluminium is considered commercially sensitive, and we are therefore unable to disclose this information. The recycling contract operates on a mixed basket (commingled) basis. For context, the annual contract for processing and selling recycling during the last financial year (April 2024 to March 2025) was at a cost of just under £403,000. This figure includes revenue from the sale of the recycling minus the operating costs, but does not include recycling credits received from the disposal authority
e. As above.
f. Not able to answer as per answer to question 4.
g. N/A
4.
a. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership (RECAP).
b. No.
c. No