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Your Local Recycling Scheme: East Cambridgeshire

Kerbside Collections

What can I recycle and compost?
How do I get a new black box?
When are my collections and how often?
Why can't I recycle other plastics?
Don't bin in, bring it
Recycling banks and Household Recycling Centres
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Changes to your recycling

We regret that plastic bottle recycling collections will stop from Friday 26th March 2010.

Residents can continue to recycle plastic bottles in recycling banks around the District and at Grunty Fen Household Waste Recycling Centre.

More information on what you can recycle at each site can be found in our recycling banks and Grunty Fen Household Waste Recycling Centre section. Alternatively you may wish to contact East Cambridgeshire District Council directly, using the contact details below.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the withdrawal of this service as a result of enforced spending cuts.

Questions or problems?

Customer Helpline: 01353 665555
E-mail: waste@eastcambs.gov.uk
Website: www.eastcambs.gov.uk

Containers

Black Sack - rubbish that cannot be recycled or composted

Black Box - recycling

Clear Plastic Sack - plastic bottle recycling

Brown Sack - garden, food and cardboard waste for composting

How do I get a new black box?

Please call Veolia Environmental Services on 01353 863864

Black and brown sacks are delivered to your home as part of your collection service.

Black and brown sacks are delivered to your home. Additional brown sacks can be bought from local shops for 50p each.

When are my collections and how often?

East Cambridgeshire operates a weekly black sack collection and a fortnightly collection of brown sacks and black boxes.

Find out about your black box collections.

Find out about your brown sack collections.

Black Box

Yes please - if it is not listed it is not accepted in this container

PAPER

Newspapers
Magazines
Junk mail
White paper
White envelopes (please remove plastic windows)

GLASS - separate into a plastic bag and placed in your black box

Clean glass bottles of any colour
Clean glass jars of any colour

CANS - separate into a plastic bag and placed in your black box

Clean food cans (squashed if you can)
Clean drinks cans (squashed if you can)
Empty aerosols (do not squash)
Metal jam jar lids/metal screw caps from wine bottles
Biscuit/sweet tins
Clean foil and clean foil containers (e.g. from pies or takeaways)

No thanks - the following items are therefore not accepted in this container

Plastics (please use red sack for plastic bottles)
Cardboard - put this in your brown sack for composting
Telephone directories or yellow pages - put this in your brown sack for composting
Shredded paper - put this in your brown sack for composting
Egg Boxes - put in your brown sack for composting
Any plastic other than plastic bottles
Plastic film
Crisp packets
Plastic/foil pouches (e.g. from pet foods)
Pyrex dishes (they are designed to not melt and therefore cannot be recycled!)
Broken glass
Earthenware, crockery or ceramics - if not broken please take to charity shop
Light bulbs or tubes - take these to your nearest Household Recycling Centre (see link below)
Batteries - these are classed as hazardous waste. They should be taken for recycling, either at the collection point in the foyer of Waitrose, Hauxton Road, Trumpington, or taken to your nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre (see below)
Milk and juice cartons
Paint cans
Motor oil containers
Hypodermic needles
Brown envelopes and brown paper

Clear Plastic Sack

Plastic bottles without lids (including all cleaning product/toiletry bottles).

Please...

Rinse bottles out
Squash bottles if possible
Remove lids

No thanks - If it is not a plastic bottle then please do not include it!

Why can't I recycle other plastics?

These items are made from different types of plastic, which means they need to be treated differently. At present the technology and markets in this country are not developed enough to enable local authorities to recycle them effectively.

Brown Sack

Yes please - if it is not listed it is not accepted in these containers

FOOD WASTE

All cooked and uncooked food waste (including meat (raw/cooked) and bones)
Coffee filters and tea bags

GARDEN WASTE

Grass and hedge cuttings
Flowers and weeds
Twigs, bark and small branches
Windfall fruit
Straw and sawdust from rabbits and guinea pigs

CARDBOARD/OTHER

All types of cardboard including cardboard food packaging (not waxy cartons (e.g. milk) or food/drinks cartons (foil lined)
Phone books and yellow pages
Catalogues
Shredded paper
Low quality/fibrous paper such as craft/sugar paper
Brown envelopes with plastic windows removed
Soiled newspaper (unless contaminated with chemicals, oil/fuels)

No thanks - the following items are therefore not accepted in this container

Unfortunately, biodegradable bags are not accepted in your green bin/brown sacks as they do not break down sufficiently in the composting system used by local authorities to compost household waste collected in Cambridgeshire
Food and drink cartons (these can now be taken to some recycling centres around Cambridge, see links to recycling banks below)
Plastic bags or sacks of any kind
Plant pots and seed trays
Soil
Cat or dog litter
Food and drink cartons (e.g. milk cartons)
Ash - please home compost where possible
Nappies of any kind
Rubble, stones and bricks (take this to your nearest Household Recycling Centre (see link below)
Glass, cans or textiles
Painted or treated wood

Black Sack

This should be used for everything that cannot be recycled or composted.

Don't bin in, bring it

Please do not place batteries in any of your bins, boxes or sacks at home. They contain hazardous materials.

You can recycle batteries at your local Recycling Centre.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

you can recycle your old electrical and electronic waste at your local recycling centre. However, if it can be reused, consider donating it to a charity shop or selling it.