How to recycle A-Z

Batteries:

• Reduce – buy wind up watch or solar powered calculator.
• Reuse – use rechargeable batteries.
• Recycle – batteries can be taken to Redfield Road Recycling Site or  go to www.countybatteryservices.co.uk for more information.

Cardboard:

Recycle – it can be composted. Those residents on the brown bin scheme can put cardboard in the grey lid bin. Some local recycling sites can take cardboard go to www.recycle-more.co.uk for more details.

Carrier Bags:

• Reduce – avoid taking them, take your own bag when you go shopping or buy a bag for life and reuse it.
  
  
• Reuse – scrunched up instead of bubble wrap, for lunches, for freezing, for shopping or for bin liners.
  
  
• Recycle – some supermarkets have collection point for plastic bag collection points.We are hoping to soon expand the materails we can collect in the grey lid bin to accept plastic carrier bags - we will inform resident if we make any changes.

CD and DVDs:

• Reuse – hang in the garden as bird scares, cut up and stick to a ball to make a disco ball, donate to charity shops, use as a coaster.
  
  
• Recycle – residents on the brown bin scheme can put them in the grey-lidded bin. You can take them to Redfield Road.

Christmas waste:

• Trees and cards: try to reduce you waste at Christmas – buy a planted tree or an artificial tree. Reuse cards buy making them into present tags for next year. Recycling – Small Christmas tree can go in the Brown bin for garden waste, otherwise take them to a Household Waste Recycling Site.
  
  
• Christmas Cards can go into the grey-lidded bin for residents on the brown bin scheme. If not find your nearest recycling site that can take cardboard here www.recycle-more.co.uk

Computers:

Donate any old computers go to  www.computeraid.org or www.recycle-it.ltd.uk.

Electronic Appliances:

• Reduce – use wind up or solar powered appliances.
  
  
• Reuse – repair and fix broken items. Donate any unwanted items to charity shops.
  
  
• Recycle – The WEEE regulations state the safe disposal of many electronic items are the producers responsibility. You will find that many shops offer a removal of your old appliance service – ask when buying. Or you can take them to Redfield Road Recycling Site click here for more details.

Envelopes:

• Reuse – stick on reusable labels.
• Recycle – envelopes can be composted at home. Residents on the Brown bin scheme can put them on in the grey lid bin.

Fluorescent light tubes:

Recycle - can be taken to our household waste recycling centres. See the manufacturer's instructions for details on disposal.

Food and drink cans:

Recycle – residents on the brown bin scheme can put their metal cans in the grey-lidded bin. Other residents can take them to their local recycling site. Find out more at www.recycle-more.co.uk

Food waste:

Reduce – try to minimise your food waste, incorporate leftovers into other meals. Most fruit and veg can be kept for weeks – months even - in the right conditions, (In the cool and out of light).

Recycle – Food waste can be composted at home, for more information go to http://www.recyclenow.com/index.html

Furniture:

Sell or donate old unwanted furniture – contact Family First for information about picking up furniture from your house on telephone, 0800 013 0497. Go to www.re-formfurniture.co.uk for information about fixing broken furniture.

Glass bottles:

• Reuse – you can reuse glass jars buy washing them out.
  
  
• Recycling – you can take glass to your local recycling site. To find your nearest site go to www.recycle-more.co.uk.

Glasses (spectacles):

Reuse – take them to boots or other spectacle retailers for use in the third world. For more information go to www.vao.org.uk.

Green waste/garden waste:

Recycle - you can compost your garden waste at home, for information on how to get a reduced price compost bin and how to compost properly you can go to http://www.recyclenow.com/index.html or www.ecosci.co.uk. You can take garden waste to Redfield Road Household Waste Recycling site click here for more details. Or those residents on the brown bin scheme can put your garden waste out in your brown lid bin for collection.

Junk Mail:

Reduce – You can stop junk mail by going to www.mps-online.org.uk Avoid signing up for unneeded catalogues and mailing lists. Any junk mail can be recycled in the grey lid bin or blue bag depending on which scheme you are.

Mobile Phones:

• Reuse – donate them to charity or take them back to retailers.
  
  
• Recycle – Tesco run a scheme for every phone that is recycled £2.50 is donated to Alzheimer’s Dementia Care and Research. Ask at your nearest Tesco Store for further details. You can now take mobile phones to our household Waste Recycling Sites.

Nappies:

Eight million nappies are thrown away every day and each child uses a total of 5,850 nappies in his or her lifetime.

Reusable nappies – nappies have come a long way since the old terry toweling one. Go to www.wen.org.uk. For more information about reusable nappies and nappy laundering service. For more information about fully compostable nappies go to www.teamlollipop.co.uk.

Newspapers:

• Reuse – newspaper can be used for all kinds of things – lining pets cages, protecting floors from paint, arts and crafts and they make great barriers mulch to suppress weeds.
  
  
• Recycling – nearly all residents in the city council should receive a collection that can take newspapers for recycling, if you are on the brown bin scheme you can put newspaper in the grey lid bin and if you are on the blue bag scheme you can put newspapers out for collection in your blue bag. For more details contact us.

Packing:

• Reduce – try to avoid over packaged goods.
• Reuse – bags, glass jars, plastic tubes can all be reuse for storage containers.
• Recycle – paper and cardboard can go in the Grey lid bin. See products for recycle logo.

Plastic Bottles:

• Reduce – refilling containers, buying products in glass.
  
  
• Recycle –residents on the brown bin scheme can put plastic bottles in their grey lid bin. Nottingham City will be trailing the use of plastic banks at a number of key sites in spring 2007. For more information about plastic recycling go to www.recoup.org and www.bpf.co.uk

Printer cartridges:

Many different charities and companies collect them – Scope 02076197239, www.officegreen.co.uk. You can also pick you free post envelopes from electrical retailers.