Recycling

 

 

 

 

 

• Recycling Points & Centres, including Items for Recycling
• Kerbside Collections, including Missed Collections, Calendars, Items for Recycling & The Weekly Recycling Trial
• Garden Waste, Home Composting & Garden Tips
• Handy Hints
• What Happens to Your Recycling
• Replacement Containers

 

Recycling Points and Centres

Visit our Recycling Points and Centres page for information on where to find Recycling Points and what you can recycle at each location. You can also check the location, opening times and acceptable materials for Household Waste & Recycling Centres.

 

• Items for Recycling - Recycling Point or Centre

 

Kerbside Collection Times, Days, Weeks, Calendars and Missed Collections

Visit our Collections page for times and advice and links to information on your collection day, collection week and collection calendars.

Visit our Missed Collections page for advice on what to do in the event of your recycling collection being missed due to severe weather or at any other time.

 

 

Kerbside Recycling in Urban and Weekly Recycling Areas

Urban Communities (300 or more households) which are NOT in the Weekly Recycling Trial receive a fortnightly collection of a black recycling box and white paper recycling sack.

Aberchirder, Banff, Macduff, Whitehills and Portsoy (along with a number of rural households north and west of the River Deveron) are taking part in a weekly recycling trial. These households have the same materials collected as those on urban routes, but with the addition of food waste.

 

• Items for Recycling - Black Recycling Box
• Weekly Recycling Trial (North Aberdeenshire)

 

Kerbside Recycling in Rural Areas

Rural Communities (less than 300 households) receive a four-weekly collection of a Blue-Lidded Paper Recycling Bin.

They are also supplied with a Recycling Box but this is NOT collected. It is provided to store recyclates or transport them to Recycling Points or Centres.

 

 

 

 

• Items for Recycling - Blue-Lidded Paper Bin, White Sack or Blue Box
• Red Sack Cardboard Recycling in Rural Areas

 

Garden Waste Recycling

Visit our Composting and Garden Waste pages for information on Home Composting, Green Cones, Mulch Mowing, taking your garden waste to a Household Waste & Recycling Centre, and community composting schemes.

 

• Share your waste aware gardening ideas by going to our Garden Tips page.

 

Reduce Reuse Recycle Handy Hints

See our Handy Hints for ways to cut food waste, turn garden waste into something useful and make your recycling more effective.

The online versions of the 11 Handy Hints are in A4 format so you can easily print them off as reminders or as posters (or why not save paper and just keep them on your desktop).

 

 

Do You Know What Happens to Your Recycling?

All of the material collected for recycling in Aberdeenshire is recycled. None of it is landfilled. To find out more about where it all goes and what it's used to make, just take a look at our 'What Happens to Your Recycling' page.

 

 

 

Replacement Recycling Boxes & Nets/Covers, Paper Sacks, and Battery Bags

Please contact us first when you need new or replacement containers or covers. These are free of charge.

For your convenience, we have arranged a number of collection points throughout Aberdeenshire for Recycling Boxes (and nets or covers for these), Kerbside Paper Recycling Sacks, and Battery Recycling Bags. These are shown on the 'Container Collection Points' PDF below. Telephone numbers are included in case you wish to check that a collection point is open before you call in.

Please note - we cannot store kitchen caddy liner bags for the Weekly Recycling Trial at these locations. You should ask for these by speaking to your recycling collection crew or by leaving them a note on your Recycling Box or Blue-Lidded Bin.

• Container Collection Points (pdf 15 kb)

 

Replacement Refuse and Paper Recycling Bins

For Blue-Lidded Paper Recycling Bins or Refuse Bins, please contact us.