Alternate weekly collections
Thanks to the efforts of local residents we are
now recycling over 30% of our waste!
Alternate Week Collections, (AWC) take
place across the borough. Glass, cans and plastic bottles
are collected together in either 140 litre
or 240 litre wheeled bins. Please put all these items
into the bin loose - (not in plastic bags as the
machinery that is used to sort out this recycling can not open
bags).
The blue sacks are for mixed paper and cardboard
including newspapers, all magazines, shop catalogues, shredded
paper, envelopes, junk mail, (remember to remove your address),
yellow pages and phone directories.
We can now accept fruit juice and milk containers - the
tetrapak type, pictured - provided they are washed out and
squashed before putting into the blue sack.
If you require another recycling bin or more blue bags
please contact us on 0845 226 1800
Cans, plastic bottles and glass are sent to Greenstar in
Darwen for re-processing whilst the paper and cardboard goes to
Severnside in Bolton where it is sorted.
It is important that the glass, cans and plastic bottle
recycling is not contaminated as we are limited to 5% of the
total waste collected. For paper and cardboard this
figure comes down to 2%.
Please put your recycling bin together with your blue
bags at your normal collection point by 7am on your
collection day.
Your bin and bags will be emptied at the same time by one of our
split-bodied refuse vehicles pictured below.