Every year in the UK, we produce 3 million tonnes of plastic that could be headed to landfills. In St Helens, recycling will consume a lot of it. Unfortunately, much of it will end up there, anyway. The best way to keep it out of the landfill is by recycling more. We handle all grades of plastic and the customer does not even have to sort it. We drop the appropriate container for individuals and businesses to fill and then we pick them up on schedule. That massive amount of recyclables is moved to our secure recycling centre. We hope to help everyone lessen their carbon footprint and we’re having good success. Seven hundred tonnes a week of cardboard and paper no longer go into our landfills.
With so many homes and businesses recycling in St Helens, you may wonder what Elsa Recycling does with those tonnes of paper and plastic waste. Elsa has contacts around the world in the market for cardboard to make new cardboard. The paper products go to manufactures who make new paper products and the fifty grades of plastic come back to us as new plastic products. These products made from recycled paper, plastic, and cardboard are cheaper to manufacture so we pay less for the new products. Contact Elsa Recycling if you are not recycling or could recycle more. We make it as easy as possible.