Recycling Collection Services
Recycling Video (|Recycling Video Transcript)
First Available 6/12/2011
You can now recycle all of your Plastic Pots, Tubs & Trays in your blue top bin!
Every fortnight we collect your recycling from your blue top wheeled bin. This is on the alternate week to your refuse collection.
Each household should have:
- A blue top wheelie bin
What can go in my recycling bin?
You can now recycle all of your plastic pots, tubs & trays as well as bottles in your blue top bin. See the image on the right for the full list of what can go in your bin. If something can't be put in your blue top bin then use our |Recycling A to Z to see if it can be reused, recycled or taken to a |Recycling Centre.
- |Find out more on what can go into all of your bins here
- or download an updated |guide to what goes in your bins
Top tips for recycling
- Remove plastic lids from containers and recycle them in your blue top bin separately
- Rinse out containers
- Recycle meat trays and other food trays but remove any plastic film first
- Take juice cartons, called Tetra-Paks, to your local recycling centre where Tetra-Pak have their own collection bank
- Keep a separate bin or box indoors to store recyclable material
- Flatten cardboard boxes
- Sign up to the |Mailing Preference Service to stop unwanted mail from being put through you door
How to use the recycling service
- Please only place loose recyclable materials, individually into your bin
- Do not place them in a plastic bag or other wrapping
- A bundle of cardboard boxes, flattened and tied with string, can be placed next to your recycling bin every collection
- On collection day, place your recycling bin at the boundary of your property
About your recycling
- |Order a new, replacement or larger bin
- |Find out your collection day
- |Find out what happens to the collected recycling
- |More about waste policies and waste management in Surrey
What about recycling for businesses?
If you're a business and your interested in adopting greener practises visit the |Surrey Green Steps to find out how.
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