Stockport Council’s improved recycling collection service now allows residents to recycle aluminium foil.

Borough residents can recycle aluminium foil in their brown wheelie bin or black recycling box or take it to a local recycling site and put it in the container for recycling food tins and drink cans.

All foil can be recycled, such as foil trays, pie cases, dairy lids, household wrapping foil and the foil from some chocolate bars. Metallised plastic film such as crisp packets cannot. To check if your foil is recyclable do this simple test, scrunch it up in your hand if it doesn’t spring back it can be recycled.

An improvement in technology at the material reprocessing plant now allows the aluminium foil to be recycled. Foil is a slightly different alloy than that used in food tins, drinks cans or aerosols.

It is increasingly recycled into the automotive industry, where it can be cast into a range of new products, such as cylinder heads.

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