Recycling at home in South Gloucestershire

Recycling at Home is Easy in South Gloucestershire!

Everybody living in South Gloucestershire can recycle using the SORT IT!* service. Each house has a green recycling box, green bag and a green wheelie bin.

Rubbish (which goes in a black wheelie bin) and recycling are collected on alternate weeks.

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Green bag for recycling paper in South Gloucestershire

Put these things in your green bag:

newspapers
magazines
junk mail
brochures
catalogues
leaflets

Put these things in your green box:

aluminium (drinks) cans
aerosol cans
steel (food) cans
aluminium foil
glass bottles and jars
old clothes
old shoes (in pairs)
car batteries
domestic batteries
engine oil (in a container)

Put these things in your green bin:

grass cuttings
weeds
prunings
leaves
twigs
cardboard

Put your green box and bin outside your house by 7am on the right day each fortnight.
	This lorry will collect the materials from your green bin an take them to be composted.

A lorry like this will take the materials in your green box and bag away for recycling. That means that they will be made into new things rather than being dumped in a landfill site.

SORT IT!* lorry collecting materials for recycling

At the moment you can't put plastic bottles in your green box or bag, but you can take them to plastic recycling banks at some supermarkets.

Click here to find out more.

The other thing that you can't recycle in a green box or bin is food peelings. The best thing to do with these is recycle them using a compost bin.

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.

For more information about recycling and composting contact the South Gloucestershire Helpdesk on 01454 868000 or have look at their website.

To find out about recycling at school in South Gloucestershire use the links below:

Primary Schools

Secondary Schools

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