What Happens to the Items You Recycle?

All recycling collected in Norfolk goes to the county’s recycling sorting facility at Costessey, known as the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). You can now look around the inside of the facility with an interactive, 360º video.

The video shows what happens to your recycling after it’s been collected from your home in Norfolk and gives you the chance to see inside the recycling centre – following how paper and plastic from your recycling bins are sorted by hand and by machine.

The video can be viewed on a desktop, mobile, tablet or VR headset – just click or tap on the picture below.

The video below shows what happens to your recycling once it arrives at the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).

For a list of what you can put in your recycle bin, please visit our My Recycling Bin page.