Plasterboard

Household recycling Centres

Plasterboard can only be taken to some of Household Recycling Centres: Amersham, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, High Wycombe and Langley.

Once collected the plasterboard is sent for processing where it is broken into different parts:

Gypsum – which is the main component of plasterboard and gives it the fire resistance quality. This makes up approx. 85% of plasterboard and is sent to be either; manufactured into new plasterboard, to agriculture as a soil conditioner/fertiliser, absorbency markets such as cat litter and fuel spillages, or cement manufacturing 

Paper –  this is sent to make animal bedding or composting

Metal – is sent to scrap 

Wood – is sent to make fuel for Biomass boilers 

Plasterboard is banned from going to landfill which is why is has to be separately collected.

Totternhoe in Bedfordshire – plasterboard is initially sent to Totternhoe, then onto Thruxton in Hampshire for processing.

109.82 tonnes of plasterboard is collected for processing each year. And 99.18% of that material is recovered with the remaining 0.82% going to Energy from Waste plants.