Cheltenham - recycling made easy!
You can contact your recycling team by calling 01242 264 244, email cleansing@cheltenham.gov.uk or visit www.cheltenham.gov.uk for more details
Click here to access the national recycling bank locator. Type in your postcode to get detailed recycling information, including location maps.
- collection
- composting
- recycling banks
- household recycling centres
Collections are fortnightly, normally on the same day as your refuse. Please put your recycling box out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement box, or assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
These are the materials you can put in your green recycling box
mixed paper
- mixed paper
- Newspapers & magazines
- Paper (white & coloured)
- Catalogues & brochures
- Envelopes please tear out plastic windows please tear out plastic windows
- Telephone directories
- Junk mail
- Wrapping paper
- Hardback catalogues
food & drink cans
- Food cans/tins
- Drink cans/tins
- Pet food cans/tins
- Aerosols
- Foil
Please rinse. Labels can be left on. Put sharp lids inside cans and crush
glass bottles & jars
- Glass bottles
- Glass jars
- Broken glass
- Milk bottles
- Pyrex
- Mirror glass
- Sheet glass
- Spectacles
- Other glass (e.g. drinking glass)
Please rinse No lids, corks or caps please. Labels can be left on
lightweight cardboard
- Cereal boxes
- Egg boxes
- Paper roll liners
- Food/toothpaste boxes
- Tetra Pak e.g. drink cartons
- Soiled Packaging
- Large cardboard boxes*
When possible, put your card inside another box!. Items marked* can be recycled at the Swindon Road Recycling Centre where you can also recycle textiles, shoes and garden waste.
plastic bottles
- Plastic bottles (all types)
- Milk / squash bottles
- Cleaning / bleach / detergent bottles
- Toiletry bottles
- Yogurt / margarine tubs
- Fruit punnets
- Ready meal / meat trays
- Cling film
- Carrier bags
- Polystyrene
Food waste collection
Each property has been issued with two food waste caddies. A larger caddy for the outside to present the food waste for a weekly collection, and a smaller caddy to collect the food waste in the kitchen. Tip the contents from the kitchen caddy when necessary into the larger caddy and present the larger caddy at the kerbside along with your green recycling box or green refuse bin (depending on the collection week) by 7am.
Both food waste caddies are lockable; rotate the handle forward to lock the caddy. Store the larger caddy out of direct sunlight and keep locked at all times.
Kitchen caddies can be lined with compostable liners, tissue paper or newspaper. Caddies must not be lined with plastic carrier or shopping bags. Food waste presented in these bags will not be collected. More information on food waste liners can be found here.
Both caddies can be washed clean and are dishwasher safe below 60oC. In some blocks of flats, a communal wheeled bin for your food waste may have been provided. Please contact your housing provider or management company to find out how the food waste collection is managed.
These are the items you can put in your food waste container
- Food - cooked and uncooked
- Raw and uncooked fruit and vegetables
- Meat and fish, including bones and skin
- Cheese and other dairy products
- Eggs and egg shells
- Small amount of liquids, oil and fat (including solid fats such as lard)
- Bread, cakes and pastry
- Plastic (including carrier bags and non-approved biodegradable liners)
- Packaging of any kind
- Metal and glass
- Any other household waste
- Animal faeces
- Animal bedding
- Pet litter
- Cardboard
- Nappies
You can compost in three ways
1. Home Composting
Using a compost bin or heap is the best option for the environment and your garden. Also, you can compost kitchen waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings as well as garden waste.
Compost bins can be bought for as little as £15 (plus £5.49 delivery, per order). To find out more, call 0845 076 0223.
2. Garden Waste Collection
The garden waste service is operated on a subscription basis. Residents can subscribe to the scheme by ordering and paying in advance for one year. For the duration of the subscription you will be provided with a brown wheeled bin in which to keep your garden waste. The brown bin is emptied fortnightly. The cost of one year's subscription is £36. Garden waste only, no food/kitchen scraps. For further information, please contact the Recycling Team on 01242 264244 or visit www.cheltenham.gov.uk.
Collections are fortnightly, normally on the same day as your refuse. For a collection calendar or further information, please contact the Recycling Team.
3. Garden Waste Composting at your Household Recycling Centre
You can also recycle excess garden waste at your Household Recycling Centre. Garden waste only, no food/kitchen scraps.
DID YOU KNOW?
Organic materials such as grass and leaves do not break down properly when buried in landfill sites.
Instead, they produce a liquid pollutant (leachate) and a gas that contributes towards global warming (methane).
However, if we compost these materials we will:
- Reduce the amount of waste going to landfill
- Reduce pollution to our environment
- Return valuable nutrients back to our soil
To complement recycling collections from home, there is a wide range of recycling banks available for recycling a greater variety of materials.
Please remember to wash and squash any plastic bottles and rinse out your tins and cans!
- Bath Terrace Car Park
- Brooklyn Road, St Marks Community Centre
- Caernarvon Road, Morrisons
- Church Piece Car Park
- Edinburgh Place Car Park
- Everest Road, Old Patesians
- High Street Car Park
- Keynsham Road, Sandford Pool Car Park
- King Alfred Way, Q.E. II Playing Field
- London Road, Sixways Car Park
- Manor Road, Sainsbury’s
- North Place Car Park
- Priors Road, Sainsbury's
- Quat Goose Lane, Seasons Car Park
- St James Street Car Park
- Swindon Road, Recycling Centre
- Tommy Taylor’s Lane, Prince of Wales Stadium
- Whaddon Road, Cheltenham Town FC
Your nearest Household Recycling Centres are:
Swindon Road, Cheltenham
The Recycling Centre at Swindon Road, Cheltenham is operated independently by Cheltenham Borough Council. Details of this facility can be found here.
Wingmoor Farm, Near Bishops Cleeve
Click here for details of this Household Recycling Centre.