North West Leicestershire Distrcit Council has released a video to show how it deals with your recycling when it leaves your home.

The council says recycling makes sense and its Recycle more... action plan is packed with actions to help to increase people's recycling rate to 50 percent by 2023.

It also adds that efforts to recycle also help to keep council tax down by generating around £500,000 a year which is re-invested into council services.

But it also means the amount sent to landfill every year is cut.

Using recycled materials to create new products saves energy and the need to dig up more precious natural resources.

The council says it goes into the market place every two months with its recycling, ensuring it achieves the best prices.

Here is what happens to your recycling after it has been collected it - and take a look at the video below.

After transporting it to the depot, further separating and baling the recycling, the council sells each type of recycling to different re-processing companies...

All plastics are recycled in the UK. Plastic from the red box is collected from the depot by Biffa and transported to one of its Plastic Recycling Facilities in Aldridge.

The plastic is sorted into different plastic types before being sent to a Biffa facility in either Redcar, Seaham or Washington.

Here is what your plastic is recycled into:

• PET bottles (Coca Cola and Fruit Shoot bottles) are sent to Biffa Polymers in Seaham. They are then processed into plastic flake, ready to be made into containers, trays and bottles for the food and beverage packaging industry.

• HDPE bottles (milk jugs) are sent to Biffa Polymers in Redcar, then washed and flaked or pelletised so they can be made into new milk bottles.

• PP pots, tubs and trays are processed into plastic flake at Biffa's Washington facility. The flake is then used for a wide range of items such as buckets, paint trays through to car parts.

• Any 2nd Fraction Paper/Film is sent to a Waste to Energy facility, where the energy in the material is recovered to create electricity and heat.

Aluminium cans, aerosol and foil from your red box are brought to the recycling depot and separated from your plastics and steel and bale the aluminium, so it is ready to be collected by Newport Recycling.

Your aluminium recycling is then sorted, cleaned, and re-baled at a facility near Doncaster, before it is transferred to an aluminium mill in Dormagen, Germany. Here it is re-rolled and sold as drinks cans and to car parts manufacturers.

Recycling just one aluminium drinks can saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours. So recycling your aluminium cans is worth the effort!

Glass is processed by Cello Recycling Ltd. It is transported to their glass container facility in Yorkshire where it is sorted by colour and processed into glass cullet (crushed glass).

The glass cullet is then melted in a furnace ready to be made into new food, beverage, and pharmaceutical containers at the site. None of the glass is sent abroad, it is all used within the UK.

Steel cans and tins from your red box are baled at our recycling depot and collected by Clearpoint Recycling. They process and re-bale the steel cans into mill grade bales.

This means they are ready to be processed into new steel products by TATA Steel in Port Talbot and sometimes by Celsa Steel in Cardiff, for use in the construction, automotive and aerospace industries. No steel is exported outside the UK.

The council sells cardboard to Baker's Waste who take it to its facility in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire. At the facility, the cardboard is baled ready for transportation to various recycling mills abroad. At the mills, the cardboard is re-pulped, screened and cleaned, the fibres are then pressed and rolled into paper.

The council sells paper to Clearpoint Recycling, who check over your paper before it is sent to a paper mill in Norfolk. At the mill, it goes through a pulping process and is recycled into newsprint for use in the UK.