Items for Recycling - Recycling Box

 

 

 

Items for Recycling - Recycling Box

Below is a list of items you can put in your Black Recycling Box on Weekly Recycling Trial or fortnightly Urban Community collection routes. For more information on each item, simply click the relevant picture or title.

Please also note items to avoid placing in your Recycling Box.

Please see instructions for using your Recycling Box.

 

 

 

Yes, please (recycle these in your box):

Food & Drinks Cans:

For example, soup, baked beans, soft drinks, beer and cider cans. Please completely empty and wash out cans before recycling. You can also put aerosol cans in, but please make sure they are emptied first. There is no need to remove labels.

 

 

Glass Bottles & Jars:

For example, jam, cooking sauce and baby food jars; wine, beer and soft drinks bottles. Please empty and wash out before recycling. There is no need to remove labels.

 

 

 

Plastic Bottles:

For example, soft drink, detergent and shampoo bottles. Please empty and wash out before recycling. There is no need to remove labels. Please also squash before recycling. You can fit roughly four plastic bottles into the same space as one uncrushed bottle of the same size. This saves you space in your Recycling Box and it saves vehicle journeys on collections, thus reducing carbon emissions.

 

Household Batteries:

Please recycle these using the pink plastic bags provided. When you have filled a bag, just seal it and drop it in your Recycling Box.

 

 

 

No, thank you (items to avoid):

Please DO NOT put any of the following items in your Black Kerbside Recycling Box:

• Plastic bags. Please put your materials loose inside your Recycling Box. Putting them in plastic bags inside the box makes sorting difficult and hazardous to crews. It can also create a litter problem if the bags blow away.
• Any type of plastic that is NOT a bottle. For example - yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and plastic bags. The types of plastic vary and the processes used to make plastic bottles into other products are not able to work with these other containers or types of plastic.
• Unopened or part filled cans, bottles or jars. Please empty and wash containers before recycling. Any contents still in containers may harm the recycling process and can spill out, causing pollution and danger to pets, wildlife and people.
• Aluminium foil or trays. The machinery used to reprocess cans cannot cope with these.
• Any glass that is NOT a bottle or jar. For example - drinking glasses, cookware, window glass or spectacles. These cannot be recycled through the same processes as the glass used in bottles and jars.
• Broken glass bottles or jars. Your kerbside recycling is sorted into the collection vehicle by hand. Broken glass is dangerous. To prevent injuries, please only recycle broken bottles and jars at a Recycling Point or Centre.
• Car or other vehicle batteries. Household batteries only in your kerbside collection. Please use the pink battery collection bags and put the bag in your Recycling Box.

Any unsuitable materials will be returned in your Recycling Box. Our crews and vehicles are unable to take these materials away with them. Vehicles have compartments for ONLY the correct materials and no spare capacity to take away other items.

 

Using Your Recycling Box

Please fasten the provided net or plastic cover to your Recycling Box to prevent loss.

 

 

 

On collection day, stretch the net or plastic cover over the Recycling Box to prevent items blowing way.

 

 

 

If you are not on the Blue-Lidded Bin system, you can put your White Paper Recycling Sack and Black Recycling Box out side by side or put the sack on top of the box. If possible, put the sack on top of the box AND pull the box cover over both containers for extra wind-proofing and weather protection.

 

If you are on the Blue-Lidded Bin system, you should still pull the cover over your Recycling Box. This is to stop loose items spilling into the bin, where they cannot be reached and to prevent the contents blowing way when crews lift the box out of your bin.