Plastic bottles and food packaging - A-Z recycling

You can recycle any plastic bottles (including drinks, cleaning and beauty products) and all moulded plastic food packaging (such as tubs, pots, inner trays, egg boxes and black plastic) in your Mixed Recycling.

Loose bottle tops are too small to survive the pre-sorting process at the recycling facility. They won’t get recycled unless you wash and squash your empty plastics bottles and then place the top back on.

Please don’t put any herbicide or pesticide containers in your recycling bin. These could contain hazardous waste. For guidance on disposing of hazardous waste: https://www.loveessex.org/policy-and-site-restrictions/how-dispose-hazardous-waste

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