Recycling
What happens to the waste in your skip?
A skip is only the start. Follow a load through our recycling facility, from the weighbridge to crushed brick, screened soil, woodchip and fuel.
When we collect your skip it doesn't go to a hole in the ground. It comes back to one of our own licensed materials recycling facilities, where the load is sorted so that as much as possible is used again. We currently divert over 95% of the waste we receive away from landfill.
1. Weighed in
Every load crosses the weighbridge and is recorded. Since October 2026 that record is also reported to Defra's digital waste tracking service.
2. Tipped and sorted
The load is tipped in the shed and the big, obvious materials are pulled out first: wood, metal, cardboard, rubble and soil. What's left goes through screening and picking to separate the smaller pieces.
3. Turned into something useful
| From your skip | Becomes |
|---|---|
| Bricks, blocks, concrete and tiles | Certified 6F2 crushed aggregate for sub-bases, piling mats and temporary roads |
| Soil and stones | Screened soil for building up levels and landscaping |
| Wood | Woodchip for biomass boilers and board manufacture |
| Metal | Sent for melting down and reuse |
| Cardboard, plastics and UPVC frames | Baled and sent to reprocessors |
| What can't be recycled | Baled as fuel for waste-to-energy plants |
You can buy several of these back from us: see our recycled materials.
How that compares nationally
Construction waste is one of the country's recycling successes. Defra's figures put the recovery rate for non-hazardous construction and demolition waste in England at about 95% in 2024, much of it reused as aggregate.
How you can help
- Keep plasterboard out of a mixed skip: it has to be handled separately, so ask us for a plasterboard skip.
- If your waste is all one material, such as soil, hardcore or wood, a skip for just that is easier to recycle and often cheaper.
- Check what can and can't go in a skip before you start.