Response 3898247

Response to request for information

Reference

3898247

Response date

12 February 2026

Request

1. Do you currently operate a segregated or commingled kerbside collection service for dry recyclable materials?

2. Do you have a policy or directive that specifies that all your kerbside-collected dry recycling materials should be recycled in the UK?

   1. Please specify if there are different policies for different materials. 

3. For aluminium specifically:

   1. Who sorts and recycles your aluminium for you? 

   2. If outsourced, please specify the company or organsation?

   3. Is your aluminium recycled in the UK?

   4. How much annual income do you derive from the sale of recycled aluminium? 

   5. Does this income subsidise, or make a substantial contribution to, the cost of your whole recycling programme?

   6. What would be the impact to your overall recycling programme if you lost your entire aluminium recycling income?

   7. Would you have to increase your Council Tax to compensate for such a loss?

4. Are you a member of any local authority waste management partnership?    

   1. If so, which one?

   2. Does it operate its own Materials Recovery Facility?

   3. Does it have a policy or directive to ensure that aluminium is recycled in the UK?

Response

1. Do you currently operate a segregated or commingled kerbside collection service for dry recyclable materials?

   • Co-mingled

2. Do you have a policy or directive that specifies that all your kerbside-collected dry recycling materials should be recycled in the UK?

   • No and disposal of such waste is the responsibility of Nottinghamshire County Council as the designated waste disposal authority.

3. For aluminium specifically:

   1. Who sorts and recycles your aluminium for you? 

   2. If outsourced, please specify the company or organsation?

   3. Is your aluminium recycled in the UK?

   4. How much annual income do you derive from the sale of recycled aluminium? 

   5. Does this income subsidise, or make a substantial contribution to, the cost of your whole recycling programme?

   6. What would be the impact to your overall recycling programme if you lost your entire aluminium recycling income?

      • Answer for questions a. to f. - please direct the request to Nottinghamshire County Council as the designated waste disposal authority.

   7. Would you have to increase your Council Tax to compensate for such a loss?

      • Rushcliffe do not receive any income for such waste.

4. Are you a member of any local authority waste management partnership?    

   1. If so, which one?

      • Nottinghamshire Waste Partnership

   2. Does it operate its own Materials Recovery Facility?

      1. Through a contract with Veolia as part of Nottinghamshire County Council arrangements as the registered waste disposal authority.

   3. Does it have a policy or directive to ensure that aluminium is recycled in the UK?

      • Please direct the request to Nottinghamshire County Council as the designated waste disposal authority.