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Online: Recycling Collections
The Council is aiming to supply every household in the district with a recycling collection from the kerbside. We will supply you with a black box and brown bags, for the collection of your recycling.
Your black box will be collected every fortnight. Find out when your recycling collection day is. Please bring your containers back in as soon as possible after they have been emptied, to avoid causing obstruction on the pavement.
We currently collect glass, tins, cans, paper and aerosol cans from the kerbside. The items should be loose in the box and plastic bags should not be tied.
Please include:
Inside your black box
- paper
- newspapers
- magazines
- junk mail
- white paper and white envelopes
- telephone directories
- cardboard can be flattened and bundled and placed out for collection beside your box
In a separate carrier bag
- glass
- clean glass bottles and jars - all colours
In an additional carrier bag
- clean food and drink cans - squashed if possible
- empty aerosol cans - not squashed
- biscuit and sweet tins
Please don't include:
- broken glass
- window glass or Pyrex
- egg boxes
- milk and juice cartons
- plastics
- carrier bags
- paint cans
- motor oil containers
- hypodermic needles
- brown envelopes
- brown paper
- crisp packets
- plastic 'foil' pouches, eg from pet food
What happens to your recycling?
All of the recycling collected by the kerbside service or through the recycling banks goes to different companies in the UK.
- Glass goes to Berrymans in West Yorkshire (www.berrymanglassrecycling.com)
- Paper goes to Aylesford Newsprint (www.aylesford-newsprint.co.uk)
- Cans go to Pearsons of Thetford (www.pearsonsrescycling.com)
- Textiles are collected by various charities including the Salvation Army (www.satrading.co.org)
(Please note the Clothing Banks belonging to a company called Clothes Aid are NOT supported by the Council).
Please note that although most materials are reprocessed in the UK some (especially textiles) may go overseas for reprocessing.
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