Questions about recycling

I am conscientiously recycling. In a year I spend hours tearing the windows out of envelopes, removing tape from cardboard, rinsing and squeezing flat plastic bottles and washing tin cans.

Now I read in my daily paper that much of this recycled material ends up in landfill sites.

Can Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire authorities tell us what happens locally to the materials we think are being recycled?

What materials and what percentages of these recycled materials end up in landfill or being incinerated? Are we wasting our time and the councils wasting our money?

John Davies

Much Wenlock