Gloucester - recycling made easy!
Contact your recycling team at Gloucester CC by calling 01452 396396 – Email: heretohelp@gloucester.gov.uk or visit www.gloucester.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
Gloucester City Council’s recycling box collections are weekly. Please put your recycling box out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement box or to arrange an assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
There is also a collection service for bulky items, such as a fridge, freezer, television or any other large item that you would take with you, when you move house. For more information about this service, please go to the Bulky Collection Service page.
mixed paper & card
- Newspapers & magazines
- Phone directories, including Yellow Pages
- Catalogues & paperback books
- Junk mail, letters & cards
- Light card egg boxes
- Envelopes please tear out plastic windows
- Cereal & food packaging boxes
- Shredded paper
- Wet or dirty items
- Wallpaper
- Hardback books
- Shiny wrapping paper
- Gift wrap
- Corrugated cardboard (e.g. washing powder boxes)
- Tetra Pak cartons (e.g. fruit juice cartons)
food & drink cans
- Food cans
- Drink cans
- Dirty cans
- Pet food pouches / crisp packets
- Paint tins
- Aluminium foil
- Aluminium / metal food trays
- Aerosol cans
Please rinse. Labels can be left on. Can lids can be left inside but with no serrated edges.
mixed glass
- Clean glass jars
- Glass bottles (all colours)
- Window panes
- Pyrex dishes / crockery
- Light bulbs (These can be recycled at the Household Recycling Centre at Hempstead.)
- Glass milk bottles
Please rinse No lids, corks or caps please. Labels can be left on
plastic bottles
- Plastic bottles (all types)
- Milk / juice bottles
- Cleaning / bleach / detergent bottles
- Toiletry bottles
- Yogurt / margarine tubs
- Fruit punnets
- Ready meal / meat trays
- Cling film / carrier bags
batteries
- Household dry cell batteries
- 'Wet' batteries (e.g. car batteries)
Food waste collection
Food waste is collected weekly for composting, normally on the same day as your recycling collection. Every household has been issued with a small food waste caddy which can be kept on your worktop or under the sink. The caddy has a locking handle to prevent spills and smells and protect the contents from vermin. Food waste can also be emptied into the large outside caddy - which should be placed at the kerbside for weekly collection.
Please do not use any ‘plastic type’ bags e.g. corn starch, compostable, degradable, biodegradable in your caddies as the recycling teams will not empty them, as this could lead to loads of food waste being rejected as unsuitable for composting.
If you are unsure of your collection day please contact the recycling team. Please put your large outside caddy out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement container, a collection calendar or assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
Top tip: To keep your caddies clean line them with newspaper, paper kitchen towel or paper liners.
The food waste container can be used for all biodegradable food waste including:
These are the items you can put in your food waste container
- Meat and fish (raw and cooked, including bones)
- Dairy products
- Cooked and raw fruit and vegetables
- Bread, cake and pasta
- Uneaten food from plates
- Tea and coffee grounds
- Food packaging of any kind
- Liquids
- All 'plastic type' bags e.g. corn starch, compostable, degradable, biodegradable
- Crockery
- Pet carcasses or faeces
- Cooking oil
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 service by ordering and paying in advance for one year. For the duration of the subscription, you will be provided with a green wheeled bin in which to keep your garden waste, which will be emptied fortnightly. The cost of one year's subscription is £36, or £18 for concessions. Concessions are available to those residents in receipt of Council Tax or Housing Tax Benefit. Garden waste only, no food/kitchen scraps. For further information, please contact the Recycling Team on 01452 396396 or visit www.gloucester.gov.uk.
3. Garden Waste Composting at Gloucester’s Household Recycling Centre in Hempsted
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!
- Barnett Way, Sainsburys
- Bruton Way, Asda
- Castlemeads Way, Castlemeads
- Glevum Way, Morrisons
- St Ann Way, Sainsburys, Gloucester Quays
Your nearest Household Recycling Centre is:
Hempsted, Near Gloucester
Click here for details about this Household Recycling Centre.