Garden Waste belongs in your GARDEN WASTE bin.

https://www.threerivers.gov.uk/egcl-page/brown-bins

Examples: Grass cuttings, wood prunings, dead flowers. Please do not put any garden toys, soil, carrier bags, food waste, or cardboard in this bin.

Please Remember: This is a chargeable service.

Hints and Tips: Why not try home composting instead, this will take care of your food and garden waste, and you will benefit from nutritious fertiliser for your garden.

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Gas cylinders should be RETURNED TO THE SUPPLIER OR RECYCLING CENTRE.

Examples:

Helium canisters

Soda stream - contact Sodastream for a pre-paid shipping label.

Calor Gas (gas bottles for BBQs and camping stoves)- contact your local Calor centre for collection.

Small nitrous oxide (laughing gas) cylinders - recycle them at a recycling centre, in the metals container.

Aerosol cans - see our specific advice.

Please remember: Please do not put these in your household bins, they can be hazardous, causing fires in waste storage areas, collection vehicles, and landfills. Please return them to the supplier, the local Household Waste Recycling Centre will accept them if the supplier cannot be traced. Please speak to site staff if you are taking gas bottles to the household waste recycling centre.

Gift bags belong in your REFUSE bin.

Please Remember: Reuse them as much as possible, pass it onto a friend of family member to reuse!!  If it is damaged, why not cut it up to make cards or gift tags?

Glass cookware belongs in your REFUSE bin.

Examples: Pyrex dishes, drinking glasses, vases, ceramics, and glass mixing bowls or measuring jugs.

Please Remember: If the glass is broken, please wrap it up or put it in a box to prevent any hazards from broken glass.

Hints and Tips: Many items such as cookware, glasses and vases can be taken to charity for reuse if in good condition. Otherwise, please dispose of in the appropriate container at your nearest HWRC.

Glass drink bottles belong with your RECYCLING.

Examples: Wine, beer, or spirits.

Glass cookware (e.g. Pyrex dishes), drinking glasses, vases, ceramics, mirrors, bulbs (light and fluorescent tubes) and window glass belong in your refuse bin.

Please remember: Glass bottles must be empty before recycling. Labels and lids can be left on, but leftover liquid or food residue can make other recyclables dirty, so please empty and rinse your bottles before recycling. It does not need to be spotless, a quick rinse will do.

Facts:

• Recycling a single glass bottle will save enough energy to power a laptop for half an hour.
• More than 28 billion glass bottles and jars end up in landfills every year, which is the equivalent to the Empire State Building filling up every 3 weeks.
• The glass recycling level in the UK saves enough energy to launch 10 space shuttle missions.
• Glass bottles and jars can be endlessly recycled without any loss of purity or quality.

Other glass bottles belong with your RECYCLING.

Examples: Perfume, aftershave, face/body creams.

Glass cookware (e.g. Pyrex dishes), drinking glasses, vases, ceramics, mirrors, bulbs (light and fluorescent tubes) and window glass belong in your refuse bin.

Please remember: Glass bottles must be empty before recycling. Labels and lids can be left on, but leftover liquid or food residue can make other recyclables dirty, so please empty and rinse your bottles before recycling. It does not need to be spotless, a quick rinse will do.

Facts:

• Recycling a single glass bottle will save enough energy to power a laptop for half an hour.
• More than 28 billion glass bottles and jars end up in landfills every year, which is the equivalent to the Empire State Building filling up every 3 weeks.
• The glass recycling level in the UK saves enough energy to launch 10 space shuttle missions.
• Glass bottles and jars can be endlessly recycled without any loss of purity or quality.

Glass jars belong with your RECYCLING.

Examples: Sauces, jams, or baby food.

Glass cookware (e.g. Pyrex dishes), drinking glasses, vases, ceramics, mirrors, bulbs (light and fluorescent tubes) and window glass belong in your refuse bin.

Please remember: Glass bottles must be empty before recycling. Labels and lids can be left on, but leftover liquid or food residue can make other recyclables dirty, so please empty and rinse your bottles before recycling. It does not need to be spotless, a quick rinse will do.

Facts:

• Recycling a single glass bottle will save enough energy to power a laptop for half an hour.
• More than 28 billion glass bottles and jars end up in landfills every year, which is the equivalent to the Empire State Building filling up every 3 weeks.
• The glass recycling level in the UK saves enough energy to launch 10 space shuttle missions.
• Glass bottles and jars can be endlessly recycled without any loss of purity or quality.

Plain Greeting cards (without glitter/foil/embellishments) belong with your RECYCLING.

Hints and Tips: Greeting cards with foil or glitter decorations cannot be recycles. Why not cut out the pictures and re-use them as gift tags or to make new cards for next year?

Greeting cards (With foil or glitter decorations) belong in your REFUSE bin.

Please Remember: If the front of the card (the area with the glitter/embellishments/foil) is removed, the rest of the card can be recycled.

Hints and Tips: Why not cut out the pictures and re-use them as gift tags or to make new cards for next year?