What happens to your bin contents

The roll-out of Angus Council’s new kerbside recycling service was completed in 2014 – but continues to be tweaked with alterations including the controversial introduction of a £25 per year green bin garden waste collection earlier this year.

Households have a 240-litre grey recycling bin and a 140-litre purple bin, both collected fortnightly. A 23-litre brown food caddy is collected weekly.

General Angus waste goes to the Baldovie waste to energy plant, with Restenneth landfill site on the outskirts of Forfar receiving the rubbish when the plant is non-operational.

Recyclable materials from the large grey household bins are bulked locally before being taken to a sorting plant in Wales.

Food waste is also bulked in Angus and taken to an anaerobic digestion plant at Glenfarg in Perthshire.

There it is de-bagged, shredded, pasteurised and digested, producing bio fertilisers, as well as electricity which is either used on site or sold to the national grid.