There will be no changes to kerbside collections due to King's Birthday (Monday 3 June). Pop your bins out as usual by 7am on your normal collection day.
Soft drink, milk and juice bottles, large yoghurt containers, 2L hard ice cream containers, hygiene bottles (shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap), household cleaning bottles (spray and wipe, laundry liquid, dishwash liquid).
We will continue to collect glass, but only in the blue/green glass crate as normal. Glass is collected separately and sorted at a different facility to plastics, paper, cardboard, tins and cans. Glass shouldn’t ever go into your yellow lidded kerbside recycling bin. Recycling is sorted by hand, and while the sorters follow health and safety protocols to protect their hands – they don’t want to come across broken glass.
At the bottom of many bottles/containers will be a number in a triangle. If it has a number 1, 2 and 5, rinse it and put it into your yellow lidded kerbside recycling bin. If it doesn’t have a number, you can’t clearly see the number, or it’s number is 3, 4, 6, and 7, put it into your red kerbside landfill bin.
By rinsing your recycling, you help them to remain recyclable, it also helps eliminate smells in your yellow lidded kerbside recycling bin. But there are other reasons. Recycling is sorted by hand, and when we don’t rinse recycling or add gross unrecyclables to your yellow lidded kerbside recycling bin, it can get really smelly and unpleasant for the people sorting it. If nothing else, just be kind and spare a thought for those people by recycling right.
Recyclables can get ‘contaminated’ when they get covered in unwashed or unrecyclable items. Contamination can come from: containers with food, oil, paint or other liquids, sanitary items and used nappies, food or green waste in them. Recycling is compacted in the collection truck, meaning anything soiled (like nappies or food waste) and liquid, will spread over everything it touches. This contaminates the recyclables and makes them unrecyclable, meaning it all goes to landfill.
