Moving out?
It may seem a long way away but plan ahead to reduce, reuse and recycle! You don’t want to get charged for not leaving your property how you found it. Clearing up your garden Take your garden waste to your local Recycling Centre (see below) or use our chargeable fortnightly garden waste collection. See our website to find out more. Reuse and recycle We have three Recycling Centres where you can take larger unwanted or broken household items, or extra recycling or rubbish. Your local Recycling Centre is at Midland Road, Bath, BA1 3AT (by Argos on the Upper Bristol Road). • Take large items of unwanted furniture and electrical items to your local Recycling Centre
University students Your recycling and rubbish collections
• Donate any unwanted books, clothes, DVDs and CDs to local charities
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• SOFA project www.sofaproject.org.uk and the Genesis Furniture Project www.genesistrust.org.uk may collect good quality items from you for free at their discretion, for reuse • Advertise, give away or find items for free on www.freecycle.org or the Council can provide a chargeable collection service • Be considerate to your neighbours and don’t leave loads of rubbish at the end of term – start sorting and packing early and make full use of your weekly recycling collections before you leave. Find out more To find out your collection day, order any free recycling container, report a missed collection or for more information please see our website or contact Council Connect: 01225 39 40 41 SMS 07797 806545 councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk www.bathnes.gov.uk/wasteservices
For all students living in private accommodation Whatever you do, wherever you live, recycle!
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Living in private accommodation? The Council provides free collection services including: Green box recycling collection • Please wash and squash cans, plastic packaging and foil and wash glass bottles and jars.
Yes please! Paper and greetings cards F ood and drink cans and aerosols H ousehold plastic packaging (bottles, pots, tubs and trays)
• Please separate the different kinds of materials in your box to help us sort safely.
G lass bottles and jars Foil Clothes and shoes
Yes please! plate scrapings
fish
dairy
meat & bones
tea & coffee grounds
bread & pastries
Cardboard collection
Cardboard Food and drink cartons (Tetra Paks)
Batteries Car batteries
Brown paper
Used engine oil and filters Spectacles Ink and toner cartridges
No thanks Any black plastic trays and bags
Plastic film and bags Polystyrene
No thanks • Plastic including food wrapping and bags (even if made from degradable plastic) • Cardboard (please put in your blue bag for recycling instead) • Liquids or cooking oils
fruit & vegetables
Compostable liners - only use compostable liners with the seedling logo or newspaper. See a list of local stockists at www.bathnes.gov.uk/foodwaste or contact Council Connect.
All cardboard must be flattened and folded or cut so that it fits into your blue bag (no bigger than 45cm square) and onto our vehicles. Please wash and squash cartons.
No thanks Plastic, sticky tape and polystyrene
Mobile telephones
Food waste collection You can recycle all your cooked and uncooked food waste every week using your kitchen caddy and larger outside food waste bin. Your food waste will be composted and used on agricultural land. • Line your kitchen caddy with a compostable liner or newspaper. • Empty your caddy into your food waste bin before it gets too full, and rinse both bins regularly to keep them clean. • Make sure you keep your food bin locked by pulling the handle forward so it is secure from animals and birds.
Yes please!
Rubbish collection Use this collection only for items you can’t recycle. Please • Use black sacks or carrier bags (tied) or a conventional dustbin. • Don’t overfill your sacks so we can lift them without splitting. • Wrap anything sharp like broken glass in plenty of newspaper.
University accommodation To find out what you can recycle in your halls of residence please contact your university.
Putting your rubbish and recycling out for collection • We collect your recycling and rubbish on the same day of the week but with different vehicles. • All collections are weekly except garden waste which is fortnightly. • Please put your containers out by 7am on your collection day or after 8pm the previous evening, at the front edge of your property, where they can be seen easily by our crews. • Please bring containers back in as soon as you can after emptying. • We collect as normal on all bank holidays except over Christmas and New Year. • You can be fined for leaving rubbish and/or recycling out at the wrong time or place.
Everything we collect for recycling is reused or turned into new things.