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Recycling Collection

You are able to put the following materials in your blue-lidded bin (or recycling boxes).

Paper - e.g. Newspapers, magazines, scrap paper, envelopes, yellow pages

Cardboard - e.g. cardboard boxes (broken up to fit in the bin/box), packaging material

Glass - Bottles and jars

Tins and cans - Food tins and drinks cans

Plastic packaging - e.g. bottles, yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, fruit punnets, microwave trays

Aluminium foil

Cartons - e.g. tetrapak, drinks cartons, soup cartons

Please note: No cling film type plastic or plastic bags

Please ensure all material is clean and dry and put loose into you bin/box for collection.

If you have excess material, you can take it to one of the Council's Mini Recycling Centres or one of Warwickshire County Council's Waste and Recycling Centres.

What happens to my recycling?

Recyclable material is collected and taken to a Material Recover Facility (MRF) run by Pure Recycling in Ettington. The mixed material is then sorted using magnets, optical sorting and other technology until the different materials are sorted into seperate waste streams.

Materials are then bulked and taken to various reprocessing facilities in the UK where they are made into new products. Examples of what your recycling could become are listed below:

Paper - Newspapers and telephone directories
Cardboard - Cardboard boxes and packaging
Glass - New bottles and jars or used as aggregate for road surfacing
Tins and cans - New cans and tins, window frames, steel beams, engine parts
Plastics - Plastic bottles, packaging, traffic cones, fleece clothing, carpet, garden products, pipes, recycling boxes

For more information on what happens to your material, please visit Pure Recycling's website for an in depth look at the recycling process. Alteratively, you can watch a short film of our appearance on Blue Peter showing how the material is processed through the Material Recover Facility.

Collection calendar

View our bin collection calendar for your collection days.

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Contact us

If you would like more information or wish to speak to a member of the Council's Streetscene team, please contact us:

Telephone: 01789 260616

Fax on 01789 260607, or

Email streetscene@stratford-dc.gov.uk

External links:
Pure Recycling

See also:
What Happens to my recycling? Community & Living news

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Elizabeth House,
Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
CV37 6HX

E: info@stratford-dc.gov.uk
Tel: 01789 267 575
Fax: 01789 260 007
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