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WHERE YOU LIVE

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WHERE YOU LIVE

Cheltenham

Cotswold District
At home
Composting
Recycling banks
Household recycling centres
Contact recycling team
  Download recycling guide (pdf)

Forest of Dean District

Gloucester

Stroud District

Tewkesbury Borough

 

 

 

at home

Collections are fortnightly, normally on the same day as your refuse. If you are unsure of your collection day please Contact the recycling team. Please put your recycling box out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement box, a collection calendar or assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.

These are the materials you can put in your black recycling box

recycle box

 
yes
 
no

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mixed paper

Newspapers & magazines
Paper (white & coloured)
Catalogues & brochures
Yellow pages & telephone directories
Junk mail & envelopes
No plastic wrappers

 

Wrapping paper
Card
Cardboard

 
yes
 
no

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food & drink cans

Food cans/tins (including cake & chocolate tins)
Drink cans/tins
Pet food cans/tins
Please rinse
Put sharp lids inside cans and crush
Labels can be left on

 

Foil

 
yes
 
no

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glass bottles
& jars

Glass bottles
Glass jars
Please rinse
No lids, corks or caps please
Labels can be left on

 

Broken glass
Milk bottles
Pyrex
Window & mirror glass
Lightbulbs, spectacles
Other glass (eg drinking glass)

 
yes
 
no

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aerosols

Aerosol cans
Empty aerosols only
Please do NOT squash!

 

 

 
     
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