NOTE: No thin-soft-stretchy-crinkly plastics or plastic-foil mixed materials, such as pouches, are yet taken for recycling in Somerset in kerbside collections or at any recycle sites. ■ “Compostable” food containers, cups, packaging, magazine wrappings. ■ Expanded polystyrene, plastic packaging inserts. (See below for supermarket and TerraCycle options.) ■ Other plastics, such as plastic toys, CD cases, car parts, coat hangers, plastic paint pots, toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, blister packs, pens. ■ Thin stretchy and crinkly plastics, such as cling film, carrier bags, black sacks, bubble wrap, food wrappings. ■ Mixed materials, such as pet food pouches, crisp packets, dishwasher tablet bags. Take care with trays that contained raw meat, remove soaker pads (and then wash your hands). ■ Rinse out food residues or other contents, squash-nest-stack and, if safe, crush items to fit more in. ■ Remove, recycle if possible or discard all film covers, foil lids, soaker pads, cardboard sleeves etc. ■ Plastic trays – including black plastic – for meat, ready meals, plastic punnets for fruit and mushrooms, plastic egg boxes, the internal trays in boxes/tins of chocolates, biscuits etc. ■ Plastic tubs for margarine, ice cream, laundry tablets etc. ■ Plastic pots for yoghurt, soup, face cream, hair gel etc. All Somerset recycle sites also take household and food rigid plastic pots, tubs, trays (rinse, squash/nest/stack). See below under recycle sites what to do with containers from garages or garden sheds.Īll kerbside collections except those in Sedgemoor and West Somerset also take – in the Bright Blue Bag – household and food rigid plastic pots, tubs, trays (rinse, squash/nest/stack). Kerbside collections and recycle sites do not take plastic bottles or other plastic containers from your garage or garden shed, given the risks to customers, staff and the wider environment from the contents, such as pesticides and brake fluid. These include those for milk, bleach, juice, shampoo etc, including bottles from spray cleaners and soap/sanitiser dispensers (discard the trigger sprays and hand pumps). For information about supermarkets and TerraCycle schemes, see below.Īll kerbside collections and recycle sites take household plastic bottles (rinse, squash, tops on). The sorted materials are then transported to various locations for recycling.There are four main channels to recycle plastics in Somerset: kerbside, recycle sites, supermarkets – many of which take a wide range of soft-thin-stretchy-crinkly plastics and plastic-foil mixed materials – and TerraCycle’s commercially-sponsored charity-related schemes for plastic items as diverse as contact lenses and biscuit wrappers. The plastic, metals and cartons are loaded into a large lorry and taken to a materials recovery facility in Grangemouth where they are sorted to produce bales of different types of plastic bottles, mixed plastics, steel and aluminium and cartons. The material from the recycling collections is taken to East Lothian Council's Waste Transfer Station, at Kinwegar, near Wallyford where it is bulked up before it is taken to be separated into different material streams. FCC Environment carry out the collection on our behalf. If you presented your containers at the kerbside by 7:00am on the correct collection day, with the right materials and they have not been emptied, call FCC Environment on 01620 678 825. If they are not able to separate the wrong items from the correct ones then they may leave the entire container unemptied. If you put the wrong items in your recycling containers then the collection crew will leave them in your container after they have emptied it. You can check your collection dates online by typing your postcode with the space and selecting your address.
seal your white bag and place it at the kerbside for 7:00am on your collection day.
place your plastics, metals and cartons, tops and lids into your white bag.rinse your tins and cans, and wash and squash your plastics and cartons.Plastic, metals and cartons - in your white weighted bag How do I recycle my plastic, metals and cartons?
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