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Items for Recycling - Recycling Point or Centre

Most items are recyclable at Household Waste and Recycling Centres, but Recycling Points have more limited facilities. You can check which materials are accepted at each location on the Recycling Points and Centres page.

The Only items here that you should put in your Recycling Box for kerbside collection are:
- Glass Bottles and Jars
- Plastic Bottles
- Food & Drinks Cans and Aerosols
- Household Batteries in a Battery Collection Bag

The only items you should put in your Paper Sack or Blue-Lidded Paper Recycling Bin for kerbside collection are:
- Paper (and white or grey card)
- Please DO NOT put in brown cardboard of any type

 

The following Items can be taken to your nearest Recycling Point or Household Waste and Recycling Centre. For more information on each item, simply click the relevant item within the list below:

 

Cardboard

Please:

  • Remove any metal (such as staples), polystyrene packaging, plastic or any other part of the packaging that is not cardboard.
  • Flatten any boxes so that more cardboard fits in the Recycling Points.
  • Please do NOT put Brown Cardboard in with the Paper Recycling. ONLY white or grey card can be put in with paper.
  • What happens to Brown Cardboard?top of page

Earth and Rubble

Please:

  • Earth and Rubble from household gardening and DIY only.
  • Remove all other likely materials such as Wood, Metal, Wires or Glass.
  • No Earth and Rubble generated by builders and professional gardening companies. This should be disposed of at Trade Waste rates.
  • What happens to Earth and Rubble? top of page

Electrical Appliances

  • Cooling Appliances such as fridges, freezers, and air conditioning units.
  • Other large Household Appliances such as washing machines, tumble dryers, microwaves, electric cookers, and fans.
  • TVs and other products such as computer monitors containing cathode ray tubes.
  • Straight and compact fluorescent lamps, high intensity
  • discharge lamps.
  • Smaller electrical and electronic products, tools, and appliances used in households, such as computers, hair dryers and vacuum cleaners. This category of electrical and electronic equipment includes a lot of things you may not immediately think of as 'electrical equipment', including torches, calculators, digital watches, telephones, computer mice and keyboards, toy racing car sets, digital cameras and sports equipment with electrical components, such as pedometers.

If it's got a plug, batteries, a circuit board or electrical contacts, you can recycle it instead of sending this harmful waste to landfill.

 

Food & Drinks Cans and Aerosols

Please:

Garden Waste

Please:

  • Only Household gardening waste such as grass cuttings, hedge trimmings and leaves.
  • Do Not place any plastic sacks, stones, plants pots, fencing material or other contaminents in the garden waste recycling point.
  • No Trade Waste. This should be disposed of at Trade Waste rates.
  • What happens to Garden Waste?top of page

Glass Bottles & Jars

Please:

  • Do not put broken glass bottles or jars in your recycling box. These are dangerous for our crews, who sort the recycling by hand at the vehicle side.
  • Recycle any broken bottles or jars only at a Recycling Point or Centre. This is safe because the glass is not sorted by hand.
  • Be sure to put the correct colour of glass in the correct container. The reprocessing copany needs the glass to be colour=separated and may reject it if it is not.
  • What happens to Glass Bottles & Jars? top of page

Household Batteries

  • For kerbside recycling collections, please place your batteries in the pink Battery Collection Bag. When full, put the bag in your recycling box.
  • At Recycling Centres, you will see containers set aside for Household Batteries. You do not need to use a collection bag. Please just put the batteries in loose.
  • What happens to Household Batteries? top of page

Lead Acid (Vehicle) Batteries

Please:

If you buy a new vehicle battery ask the garage to take your old one

Mobile Phones

Oil

Please:

  • Only Automotive Oil - For example - engine oil, transmission oil.
  • No Cooking Oils.
  • What happens to Oil?

Never pour Oil down your drain or put in your Refuse Bin - It is a dangerous pollutant if not propery handled and recycled

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Paper (and white or grey card)

YES, PLEASE:

  • Brochures
  • Catalogues
  • Greeting cards (without glitter)
  • Leaflets
  • Newspapers & magazines
  • Office/printer paper
  • Receipts
  • Telephone directories & Yellow Pages
  • Travel tickets
  • White envelopes
  • White or grey card

NO, THANK YOU (NEVER these):

  • Brown cardboard
  • Brown envelopes
  • Plastic wrappers and any other materials not on the 'yes, please' list above.

Plastic Bottles

Please:

  • Remove lids and empty and wash bottles.
  • Squash the bottles flat if you can. This saves space in your Recycling Box or makes space for more bottles in a Recycling Point. You can fit about four bottles into the same space as one uncrushed bottle of the same type. This also means recycling vehicles have to make fewer trips and so keep a lower carbon footprint.
  • Only if you have squashed the bottle, put the lid back on to help it stay squashed.
  • If you cannot squash the bottle, please leave the lid off and dispose of this in your refuse bin to prevent litter problems.
  • What happens to Plastic Bottles? top of page

Pressurised Containers

'Pressurised Containers' are gas bottles (such as LPG and camping gas), fire extinguishers and similar potentially dangerous containers (not normal household aerosols, which may be recycled with food and drinks cans after emptying).

Please:

Scrap Metal

Please:

Tetra Paks

Please:

  • Only Paper-Based (not plastic or foil) liquid food and drink cartons.
  • Do Not put in with Paper Recycling.
  • What happens to Tetra Paks?top of page

Only available at Household Waste and Recycling Centres in Banchory, Fraserburgh, Inverurie, Macduff, Stonehaven and Westhill

Textiles

Please:

  • Clothes, Blankets, Sheets, Curtains and any other fabrics.
  • No Pillows or Duvets (they are too bulky).
  • Ensure textiles are clean - wrap in plastic bags to protect from moisture and dirt.
  • Tie shoes together in pairs.
  • What happens to Textiles?

Tyres

Please:

Companies who change tyres during vehicle servicing should arrange disposal or recycling of old tyres in a responsible manner

Wood

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