Copeland Council has confirmed that 100 per cent of the recyclable plastic it collects is processed in the UK.
The council has spoken out after footage of irresponsible disposal of plastic recycling appeared on BBC's War on Plastics programme last week.
A spokesman said: “All the recycling we collect is sent to Cumbria Waste Management, where any non-recyclable items that have been included in error are removed.
"Additionally, if our waste operatives identify non-recyclable items that have been left at the kerbside, they will not be collected.
“Cumbria Waste Management then sends all the plastic recycling to a well-respected firm in Northampton, which converts the plastic into pellets and granules for re-sale and re-use.”
The council began collecting plastic and other recyclables from the kerbside in April 2018.
The amount of recycling has more than doubled as a result, to 3,354 tonnes in 2018/19 compared to 1,589 the previous year.
The figure for 2018/19 includes almost 550 tonnes of plastic.
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