Recycling Rubbish - Location: South Cambridgeshire
Kerbside Collections
Containers
Green Box - recycling
Green Bin or Brown Sacks - garden, kitchen and cardboard waste for composting
Black Bin - rubbish that cannot be recycled or composted
How do I get a new container?
Please call South Cambridgeshire District Council on 0845 650 0280.
When are my collections and how often?
South Cambridgeshire operates an alternate weekly collection.
Example: your green bin and green box will be collected one-week and your black bin the following week.
Find out about collections on your street.
What can I recycle?
Green Box
Yes please
- Glass jars and bottles- please remove lids and rinse
- All newspapers
- Magazines and catalogues
- Junk Mail and leaflets including envelopes - please remove any plastic windows and covering
- White paper such as letters
- Food and drink cans - please rinse
- Empty aerosol cans - do not squash
No thanks
- Plastic windows and covering on magazines and junkmail
- Shredded paper - please home compost or add to green bin
- Telephone directories or yellow pages (see green bin and brown sack)
- Pyrex dishes (they are made not to melt and therefore cannot be recycled!)
- Earthenware, crockery or ceramics (if not broken take to charity shop)
- Lightbulbs or tubes (take these to your nearest HWRC)
Green Bin
Yes please
- All cooked and uncooked food waste - wrap in newspaper (Including stale bread, vegetable peelings, meat, fish, bones, cheese and dairy produce, tea bags and coffee)
- Garden waste such as grass and hedge cuttings
- Flowers and weeds
- Bark and untreated wood
- Envelopes - please remove plastic windows
- All types of cardboard including cardboard food packaging (no waxy cartons tetrapaks)
- Phone books and yellow pages
- Straw and sawdust from rabbits and guinea pigs
No thanks
- Plastic bags or sacks
- Plastic flower pots and seed trays
- Oil
- Nappies of any kind
- Cat or dog litter
- Coal ash
- Waxy drink cartons or Tetrapaks
- Rubble, stones and bricks (take to HWRC)
- Soil
- Glass, cans or textiles
- Painted or treated wood (take to HWRC)
- Furniture (take to HWRC, charity or community group)
Black Bin
This should be used for everything that cannot be recycled.
- Dog and cat waste
- Plastic packaging (except bottles)
- Sanitary items, such as nappies
- Empty paint cans
Recycling banks and Household Waste Recycling Centres
Find a list of banks or HWRCs (tips!) in your area and what you can recycle at each site.
The District Council provides over 85 'Bring' recycling bank sites that collect:
- plastic bottles
- paper
- glass containers
- cans
- aerosols
- textiles
- books
Tips for using recycling banks:
- Please put recycling into the right containers
- Do not leave rubbish at the site
- If you see dumped rubbish or people flytipping please call 0845 650 0280
Tips for plastic bottle recycling banks
Please do not include:
- Bottle tops
- Yoghurt pots
- Margarine tubs
- Plastic egg boxes
- Plastic or polystyrene food trays and punnets
- Plastic bags - reuse when you shop and then recycle at your local supermarkets
- Plastic film
- Toys (if not broken take to charity shop)
- Brooms, buckets, bins, washing lines or other household domestic items
- Polystyrene packaging or bubble wrap
Why can't I recycle the above plastic items?
These items of made from a different type of plastic and there isn't the technology or market available to recycle them.
Cambridgeshire County Council provides Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC's) which can also recycle other household goods.
