Your A-Z Recycling Guide Stevenage Borough Council already produces a magnetic recycling guide which summaries the recycling waste you can put into each recycling bin/box. The guide has proved popular so we have designed a more detailed version to help you make the most of your recycling kerbside collection service: What is it? Aerosol cans Aluminium foil Ash (once cooled) Batteries Biscuit tin sacks Bones Branches (no more than 3 cm in diameter) Bread Brochures Builders waste nontrade only Butter tubs Cans (aluminium) Cardboard (no sticky tape or labels)
Carpet Carrier bags Some supermarkets will recycle your bags Cartons (Tetra Pak) Catalogues Cereal boxes Christmas trees Cling film Clothing including bras Coat hangers plastic Take to bring bank/charity shop Coffee grounds Cooking oil - used Crisp packets Household Waste & Recycling Directories Drinks cans Drinking glasses Duvets Egg cartons cardboard Recycle at Household Waste & Recycling Egg cartons plastic Egg shells Electrical items Envelopes (pls remove plastic windows) Fish Flowers Foil (metal) Food scrapings Food tins Frozen food bags Fruit
Fruit peelings Fruit punnets (cardboard) Glass bottles and jars Grass cuttings Hay Hedge trimmings Ice-cream containers Jars (glass) Junk mail Kitchen roll tubes Leaves Leftovers (food) Light bulbs Magazines Margarine tubs Mattresses (bed) Meat raw or cooked Medicines Take to SBC Cavendish Road Take to Chemist Microwave meal trays Milk cartons plastic Mirrors Motor oil containers Nappies Newspapers Paint pots/containers Paper bags (wrap in paper) Make use of alternate week nappy collection service Peelings Pet bedding from vegetarian pets only and only paper, straw, hay Pillows Plants Plastic bottles (no lids)
Plastic carrier bags Plastic coat hangers Some supermarkets will recycle your bags Plastic frozen food trays, pots and tubs Plastic furniture Donate to charity Plastic plant/flower pots Plastic shrink wrap e.g. frozen vegetable bags, magazine wrappings, clink film Plastic sweet containers Plastic toys Polystyrene food trays Take to a bring bank Pyrex Reading glasses Real Christmas trees Shoes Shredded paper Soil Spectacles Straw Donate to a charity Take to a bring bank Donate to a charity Take-away drink containers Tape sticky parcel tape Tea bags Tetra paks Tins/tin/aluminium foil Toilet roll tubes Toothpaste tubes Treated wood e.g. fence panels, painted doors, furniture, wicker baskets Tree cuttings Trees Christmas trees (real) Turf
Vegetable peelings Washing powder boxes Weeds Window panes Yellow pages Yoghurt pots Please remove covers If you have a recycling query please phone 01438 242242 Don t forget you can recycle more materials at your local Recycling Bring Bank and Household Waste Recycling. Recycling Bring Banks As well as kerbside recycling collections you can also make use of our 20 bring bank sites around the town, many of which accept additional recycling such as clothing, shoes and books. Recycling Bring Bank sites in Stevenage Stevenage Household Waste Recycling Stevenage Household Waste Recycling : You can also recycle these items at the Household waste and Recycling at Caxton Way, Stevenage: Aluminium Foil Batteries (Domestic) Cans (Aerosol) Cans (Aluminium) Cans (steel) Car Batteries Cardboard CDs DVDs Electrical Appliances (WEEE) Fluorescent Lighting Tubes Food and Drink Cartons Fridges and Freezers Glass Green Garden Waste Low Energy Light Bulbs Metals Mobile Phones Oil (Cooking) Oil (Engine) Oven/Hobs Paper Plasterboard Plastic (Rigid) Plastic Bottles Plastic Carrier Bags Plastic food packaging Shoes Soil Conditioner Textiles Toner Cartridges TVs and Monitors Tyres White Goods Wood Yellow Pages
Location Household Waste Recycling, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts. SG1 1XW From London Road, head towards the town. At the Six Hills roundabout turn left onto Six Hills Way (A1070). Head straight across the next roundabout and Caxton Way is on the right. All of the HWRCs except for Buntingford and Cole Green, sell bags of 100% recycled "Ace of Hearts" soil conditioner, made from garden waste collected from the Household Waste Recycling s in Hertfordshire. Each bag is 60 litres in size and is being sold for 4.00. Please ask the site operator for assistance. N.B. The green garden waste container can only take branches of up to 6 inches (150 mm) in diameter. Please note that if the site is closed during its advertised opening hours, it is most likely to be due to the servicing of a full container, which should take no longer than 20 minutes. This facility is for household waste only. Opening times Seven days a week from 8am until 6pm Household Waste Recycling s are open all year except for Christmas Day, ing Day and New Years Day. They are open on all other Bank Holidays.