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WHERE YOU LIVE

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WHERE YOU LIVE

Cheltenham

Cotswold District

Forest of Dean District

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

Stroud District

Tewkesbury Borough

 

 

 

at home

Collections are weekly, 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, or to request an assisted collection for the elderly or less abled, where required.

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

recycling box

 
yes please
 
no thanks

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mixed paper

Newspapers & magazines
Paper (white & coloured)
Brochures
Junk mail & envelopes
No plastic wrappers & tear out plastic windows

 

Yellow Pages
Wrapping paper
Card & cardboard
Sugar paper, tissue paper & paper towels

 
yes please
 
no thanks

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food & drink cans

Food cans/tins
Drink cans/tins
Pet food cans/tins
Please rinse if possible
Labels can be left on
Put sharp lids inside cans

 

Aerosols
Foil

 
yes please
 
no thanks

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glass bottles
& jars

Glass bottles
Glass jars
Please rinse if possible
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 please
 
no thanks

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plastic milk bottles

Plastic milk bottles
Please rinse if possible
No lids please
Labels can be left on

 

Any other plastic bottles
Tubs or trays
Plastic bags

 
yes please
 
no thanks

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textiles

Clothes
Towels & linen
Curtains
Shoes Please tie pairs of shoes together

 

Sleeping bags
Duvets

     
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