Kerbside Collections

We can collect the following materials in our clear recycling sacks:

- Newspapers, magazines & catalogues including telephone directories & Yellow Pages

- Junk mail & envelopes

- Cardboard boxes, packaging including toilet roll & kitchen roll tubes

- Food & drink cans and aerosol cans

- Foil containers

- Plastic bottles and plastic packaging

- Yoghurt pots, margarine tubs & ice cream tubs

- Plastic food trays, fruit & vegetable punnets and ready meal trays

- Empty plastic carrier bags

Please make sure items for recycling are clean and free of food traces as any contamination could result in our recycling loads being rejected by the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF).

Please note that we cannot accept for recycling:

- Gas containers, paint tins & metal utensils

- Polystyrene, plastic film, cling film & bubble wrap

- Hard plastic items such as toys, video tapes & CD cases

- Crisp packets, biscuit wrappers and foil-type wrapping paper

- Wallpaper

Local Recycling Centres

There are local recycling centres in many locations around the District often in supermarket car parks, pub car parks and village halls. To find your nearest recycling centre go to www.recycle-more.co.uk

Glass Bottles and Jars

Please recycle your glass bottles and jars at your local recycling centre or when you do your shopping if you use a supermarket.  We provide separate bins for green glass, clear glass and brown glass. Please make sure that the correct colour of glass goes in the correct bottle bank. For other coloured glass bottles and jars (such as blue and red) please use the green bottle bank. Because the majority of glass collected is green, a small amount of contamination with other colours will make little difference to the final colour of the glass after reprocessing into new green bottles.

Textiles

There are textile banks at some local recycling centres. For information on their locations go to www.recycle-more.co.uk  Don't forget that good quality, clean textiles can also be taken to any charity shop as well as shoes, books, toys and other good quality items which are sold to support the charity's work.

Beverage cartons

There are special bins for waxed beverage cartons such as those used for milk and fruit juice at a small number of recycling centres at:

- Tesco, Marks Farm, Braintree

- Tesco, The Square, Great Notley

- Stoneham Street Car Park, Coggeshall

- Butler Road Car Park, Halstead

- Morrison's, Braintree Road, Witham

Other Items

Essex County Council's A-Z guide on waste is a comprehensive guide which makes suggestions on how you can reduce, reuse and recycle items which would otherwise go to waste. The guide also gives advice on how to dispose of unusable or more difficult items of waste.  Go to www.essexcc.gov.uk  Waste and Recycling and click on the link to The A-Z guide on waste.