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WHAT CAN I RECYCLE?

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Paper 4

Confidential Paper 5

Cardboard 6

Food tins and drink cans 7

Plastic bottles 8

Glass bottles & jars 9

Food 10

WEEE 11

Printer cartridges 12

Furniture 13

General waste 14

ACCEPTABLE

White and coloured paper

Photographic paper

Shredded paper

Envelopeswhite or brown, with or without windows, no need to remove glue or stamps

Magazines and Newspapers

Sheets of paper labels

Paper bags

Junk mail

Receipts

Tickets

Hard and soft back books

Post-it notes

Paper clips

Staples

Spiral binders

✓ AVOID

Bulldog clips Reuse or put in our general waste

Plastic covers Put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Corrugated paper cardboard Recycle as cardboard

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Paper hand towels and tissue paper Usually this can be recycled with food or put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Laminated paper Put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Jiffy bags and bubble wrap bags Re-use or put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Used wallpaper Put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Paper If it’s paper and it rips, we recycle it.

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ACCEPTABLE

Securely tied in a confidential paper bag or secured in an archive box:

Receipts

Tickets

White and coloured paper

Envelopes

Post-it notes

Sheets of sticky labels

Staples

Paper clips

Spiral binders

Hard and soft back books

Confidential paperIf it has a name and address on it, it could be confidential paper.

✓ AVOID

Bulldog clips Reuse or put in our general waste

Plastic covers Put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Corrugated paper cardboard Recycle as cardboard

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Laminated paper Put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Jiffy bags and bubble wrap bags Re-use or put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Paper hand towels and tissue paper Usually this can be recycled with food or put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel

Used wallpaper Put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel


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CardboardBrown cardboard boxes, white cardboard packaging.

ACCEPTABLE

Cardboard boxes

Empty cardboard coffee cups & sleeves

Tetrapak

Pizza boxes

File dividers

Folders

Mount board

Cardboard tubes

Toilet roll centres

Postcards & Christmas cards

Archive boxes

Sandwich wrappers with no food contamination, preferably remove cellophane window

Beer mats

Corrugated paper

New wallpaper

Packaging tape

Staples

✓ AVOID

Sandwich and pizza boxes heavily contaminated with food Usually this can be recycled with food or put in our general waste for recovery as refuse derived fuel.

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Polystyrene packaging

Bubble wrap

Foam packaging


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ACCEPTABLE

Food tins and drinks cans of any shape or size

Empty aerosols

Clean aluminium foil and aluminium food trays

✓ AVOID

Liquid food contamination

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Food contamination

Part full or full aerosols

Hazardous chemical aerosols

Paint tins full or empty

Food tins & drink cansRinsed metal cans.


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Plastic bottles

ACCEPTABLE

Plastic water and juice bottles

Plastic milk bottles

Lids

Labels

✓ AVOID

Liquids

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Food or liquid contamination

Plastic bags

Food trays

Margarine tubs

Plastic cups

Polystyrene

Clingfilm

Yogurt cartons

Plastic trays

Single use plastics

Empty plastic bottles


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Glass bottles and jarsRinsed bottles and jars.

ACCEPTABLE

Glass jars

Glass bottles

Labels

Any colour

✓ AVOID

Metal lids

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Flat window glass

Pyrex

Drinking glasses

Food contamination


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Food All cooked and uncooked foodstuffs.

ACCEPTABLE

Cooked & uncooked meat

Cooked & uncooked vegetables

Out of date food

Soup

Tissue paper

Loose paper hand towels

Loose paper napkins

Shellfish in small quantities

Small bones

Biodegradable plates & cutlery

✓ NOT ACCEPTABLE

Large bones

Large quantities of shellfish

Hazardous chemicals

Human hair

Non-biodegradable plates and cutlery


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WEEEIf it has a plug, an electric lead or a battery we can recycle it.

ACCEPTABLE

Computers

Printers

Flat screen monitors and TVs

Old CRT monitors and TVs

Lamps

Toasters

Kettles

Heaters

Fridges & Freezers

Phones

Mobile phones

✓ NOT ACCEPTABLE

Gas canisters


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Printer cartridgesAll makes of printer cartridges.

ACCEPTABLE

Empty printer cartridges

Empty toner bottles

✓ AVOID

Excessive polystyrene and foam packaging

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Full toner bottles

Full cartridges


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Furniture

ACCEPTABLE

Good furniture with the potential to be reused elsewhere

✓ AVOID

Heavily worn furniture

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Broken seats

Broken casters

Ripped seats

Broken desks

Badly scratched desks

Desks with missing drawers

Pieces of broken furniture

Office furniture suitable for re-use.


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General Waste

We don’t send General Waste to landfill.

Changeworks Recycling send waste to a MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) where we try to capture every piece of value from your waste - low quality recycling is better than no recycling. Anything left over is then sent to an EfW (Energy from Waste) facility then landfill.

For recovery as refuse derived fuel. No paper, No cardboard, No plastic bottles, No cans, No glass.

ACCEPTABLELaminated paper

Plastic bags and films – including crisp packets and plastic food wrap

Single use plastics

Plastic food trays, yogurt pots & ready meal trays

Plastic cups

Plastic cutlery

Jiffy bags and bubble wrap

Polystyrene packaging

Foam packaging

Food contaminated cardboard

Drinking glasses, window glass – make sure glass is well wrapped for safe handling

Used wallpaper

End of life goods

✓ AVOID

Most of our clients can recycle 80% of their waste. What’s left in your bin?

Consider the waste hierarchy and explore measures to avoid these waste streams.

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Sharps Use a specialist hazardous waste service


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WHAT CAN I RECYCLE?

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