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Recycling

You can now recycle even more with your improved weekly recycling collection.

Tins, cans and aerosols.
Glass bottles and jars - all colours.
Plastic bottles, plastic pots, plastic tubs, plastic trays.
Paper and cardboard.
Tetra Pak liquid, food and drinks cartons

Items listed apply for all recycling containers - blue bins, boxes, sacks and communal bins.

Garden green waste is collected in the subscribed green bin or can be taken to Stafferton Way Recycling Centre.

Why Recycle?

In the borough we currently recycle and compost 44% of our waste.

This is fantastic, but the remaining rubbish is sent to landfill sites, which is an unsustainable method of disposing our rubbish and costs us almost £2.7 million last year.

Targets to reduce rubbish going to landfill sites mean we have to look at ways of reducing, reusing and recycling our rubbish.

You can recycle a wide range of materials in the borough, from paper and glass to batteries, televisions and clothes. This saves energy and raw materials, and reduces the amount of waste sent to landfill sites.

In the borough there are many ways for you to recycle:

Household Recycling and Composting

Blue bin Register and receive rewards for your recycling.

Find out how your blue bin or communal bins, recycling boxes or sacks can earn you rewards for recycling.

Find out your recycling collection day.

Subscribe to the fortnightly green bin service and recycle garden waste.

Take advantage of the boroughs discounted composters and start home composting.

Bring Sites, CA Site and Large Items Collection Service

here are 36 Bring Sites across the borough that collect household recycling items as well as foil, drinks cartons, books, textiles and shoes.

Stafferton Way Civic Amentiy Site has a wide range of recycling bins for larger items that cannot be collected from your property.

RBWM also offer a special collection service (charged) for household furniture, refrigerators and freezers.

Waste Awareness and Education

RBWM offer free waste education sessions to all schools, nurseries and community groups in the borough.

Join The Waste Team as we attend events around the borough for advice and tips to reduce, reuse and recycle your rubbish.

If you have any questions regarding the blue bins and recycling in general take a look at our FAQ pages, or e-mail waste.unit@rbwm.gov.uk or call 01628 683801.