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Braintree

Region: East of England

Cartons and paper containers (such as Pringles tubes etc.) can be recycled at the following bring bank sites (not serviced by ACE UK but the collected cartons are sent to the UK mill):

1. Station Approach Car Park, Station Approach, Braintree, CM7 3QL
2. Sainsbury’s, Blyth’s Meadow, Braintree, CM7 1XH
3. Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, CM7 9HB
4. Tesco Marks Farm, Coggeshall Road, Braintree, CM77 8AA
5. Tesco Great Notley, 1 The Square, Notley Green, Notley, CM77 7WW
6. Football Club, West Street, Coggeshall, CO6 1NT
7. Playing Fields, Stephen Marshall Avenue, Finchingfield, CO7 4LZ
8. Old Depot (by Capital Traffic Management), Dickett’s Hill, Great Yeldham, CO9 4HS
9. Chapel Street Car Park, Chapel Street, Halstead, CO9 2LR
10. Village Hall, Finchingfield Road, Steeple Bumpstead, Haverhill, CB9 7EA
11. Victory Inn, The Green, Wickham St Paul, Witham, CO9 2PT
12. Newlands Car Park, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2UU
13. Morrisons, Braintree Road, Witham, CM8 2BY

Breckland

Region: East of England

Residents can recycle their cartons from the kerbside in the black recycling bin.

Cartons can also be recycled at the following bring bank sites:

1. Ashill Recycling Centre, Swaffham Road, Ashill, IP25 7BT
2. Thetford Recycling Centre, Burrell Way, Thetford, IP24 3RW
3. Snetterton Recycling Centre, Snetterton Heath, Snetterton, N16 2JU

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Recycling

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Food and drink cartons are fully recyclable. Following significant investment from our members and our work with Local Authorities and others, the overwhelming majority of UK Local Authorities now recycle food and drink cartons, either through household kerbside collections or ACE UK’s own bring bank network. Cartons are also proposed to be on Government’s list of core materials to be included in all household kerbside collections by 2023, under new consistent collections regulations currently under consultation.

ACE UK runs its own dedicated food and drink carton reprocessing facility here in the UK, set up and opened in 2013 in partnership with paper and packaging producer Sonoco Alcore.

All cartons collected via ACE UK’s bring bank network are recycled here and we encourage Local Authorities and waste management companies to use this facility too.

How are food and drink cartons recycled at the facility?

The baled cartons are dropped into a pulper, which resembles a giant food mixer. They are pulped with water for around 20 minutes, which delaminates the packaging, breaking it down into a slurry.

The different layers of material are then separated, and the fibre is recycled at the on-site paper mill to manufacture coreboard, which is used to make cores and tubes for a variety of industrial applications. 

ACE UK is currently working with a plastic recycler in Cheshire and have developed a line which will be able to recycle all of the separated polymers and aluminium layers from the facility into new products, such as durable fence posts.

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