Recycling at home

Recycling at Home is Easy in Bath and North East Somerset!

Everybody who lives in Bath and North East Somerset has a FREE Green Box recycling collection from their home each week.

Each house has a green container for recycling - you can choose between a box (good for families) or a smaller basket (good if you're not good at lifting or don't have much space.) Some people living in the middle of Bath have a green recycling bag instead.

Instead of putting rubbish in the bin, to be dumped in a landfill site, you can put many materials in your green box.

 

Look at how much can be recycled!

  • paper
  • clean aluminium (drinks) cans
  • clean steel (food) cans
  • clean aluminium foil
  • mobile phones
  • car batteries
  • domestic batteries
  • old shoes (in pairs!)
  • Yellow Pages phone books
 Bath and North East Somerset recycling box
  • clean plastic bottles (take the lids off and squash them first)
  • clean glass bottles and jars (take the lids off first)
  • engine oil (in a container!)
  • old clothes (put them in a carrier bag)
  • toner and ink cartridges (e.g., from your printer)
Bath and North East Somerset recycling collections

Put your green box outside your house by 8am on the right day each week and a lorry like this will take the materials away for recycling.
If you haven't got a green box or you don't know when your collection day is, ring the Bath and North East Someset Action Line on 01225 394041 or email them.

If you live in a flat it's often difficult to use a green box. But don't worry! Many blocks of flats in B&NES now have mini recycling centres (known as MRCs) to recycle paper, glass and cans.

 Cartoon MRC
Resident using mini recycling centre to recycle his paper
If you've got a garden, another excellent way of recycling is using a compost bin.

Woman composting

Compost bins are just a tidy way of helping nature's recycling - in other words, rotting! Put your compost bin in your garden and put in:

  • uncooked fruit and vegetables
  • tea bags
  • shredded paper
  • cardboard (without lots of ink on it)
  • egg shells
  • leaves and dead plants from the garden
After several months you will find fantastic compost at the bottom of your compost bin, perfect for using in the garden to help plants grow.

You might have too much garden waste or cardboard to put in your compost bin. If so Bath and North East Somerset will collect it from your home and take it to a large composting site. There is a small charge for this service, which operates every 2 weeks, but anyone can put carboard and brown paper out for collection free of charge. For more information click here.

CardboardGreen waste

If you have any questions about recycling in Bath and North East Somerset, call their Action Line on 01225 394041 or have a look at their website. You can also email them with your questions .

Recycling in schools

To find out about recycling at school in Bath and North East Somerset click here.

 

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