Your A-Z Recycling Guide
T'is the season to be jolly good to the planet so here as some Top Tips to reduce your waste and keep Hertfordshire green this Christmas.
This guide has been designed to provide you with information about where to recycle your unwanted items.
Recycling bags
Your black and blue containers will soon be replaced with black and blue recycling bags. Please continue to recycle your items as you normally would, so plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays and metals should be placed in the black recycling bag and paper and card should be placed in the blue recycling bag.
What you can recycle and where
As well as using your bins, boxes and containers, you are also able to recycle many of your unwanted household items at the Stevenage Recycling Centre on Caxton Way.
| Item | Where does it go? |
|---|---|
| Aerosol cans | Black container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Aluminium cans and foil | Black container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Ash (once cooled) | Refuse bin |
| Batteries | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Biscuit tins | Black container |
| Black sacks | Refuse bin |
| Bones | Brown bin |
| Branches (up to 6 inches (150 mm) in diameter) | Brown bin |
| Bread | Brown bin |
| Broken glass (wrap in paper) | Refuse bin or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Brochures | Blue container |
| Builders waste – non-trade only | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Butter tubs | Black container |
| Car batteries | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Cardboard (no sticky tape and labels) | Blue container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Cards (without glitter or embellishments) | Blue container |
| Carpet | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Carrier bags | Refuse bin or some supermarkets will recycle your bags |
| Cartons (Tetra Pak) | Blue container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Catalogues | Blue container |
| Cereal boxes | Blue container |
| Christmas trees (real) | Brown bin |
| Cling film | Refuse bin |
| Clothing | Recycling centre, Caxton Way or recycling banks and charity shops |
| Coat hangers (plastic) | Refuse bin |
| Coffee grounds | Brown bin |
| Cooking oil | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Crisp packets | Refuse bin |
| CDs | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Directories | Blue container |
| Drink cans | Black container |
| Drinking glasses | Refuse bin or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Duvets | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| DVDs | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Egg cartons (cardboard) | Blue container |
| Egg cartons (plastic) | Black container |
| Eggshells | Brown bin |
| Electrical appliances (WEEE) | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Engine oil | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Envelopes | Blue container |
| Fish | Brown bin |
| Flowers | Brown bin |
| Foil (metal) | Black container |
| Food scrapings | Brown bin |
| Food tins | Black container |
| Fluorescent lighting tubes | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Fridges and freezers | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Frozen food bags | Refuse bin |
| Fruit | Brown bin |
| Fruit punnets (cardboard) | Blue container |
| Glass bottles and jars | Red box or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Grass cuttings | Brown bin |
| Green garden waste | Brown bin or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Hay | Brown bin |
| Hedge trimmings | Brown bin |
| Ice-cream containers (plastic) | Black container |
| Jars (glass) | Red box or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Junk mail | Blue container |
| Kettle (broken/unwanted) | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Kitchen roll tubes | Blue container |
| Leaves | Brown bin |
| Leftovers (food) | Brown bin |
| Light bulbs | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Low energy light bulbs | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Magazines | Blue container |
| Margarine tubs | Black container |
| Mattresses (bed) | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Meat (raw or cooked) | Brown bin |
| Medicines | Take to the Chemist |
| Metals | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Microwave meal trays | Black container |
| Milk bottles (plastic) | Black container |
| Mirrors (wrap in paper) | Refuse bin |
| Mobile phones | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Motor oil containers | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Nappies | Refuse bin |
| Newspapers | Blue container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Oven and hobs | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Paint pots and containers | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Paper bags | Blue container, Brown bin or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Peelings (vegetable and fruit) | Brown bin |
| Pet bedding | Refuse bin |
| Pet bedding (non-meat-eating pets) | Brown bin |
| Pillows | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Plants | Brown bin |
| Plasterboard | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Plastic bottles and lids | Black container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Plastic carrier bags | Recycling centre, Caxton Way or some supermarkets will recycle your bags |
| Plastic food packaging | Black container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Plastic furniture | Recycling centre, Caxton Way or charity shops |
| Plastic plant/flower pots | Black container |
| Polystyrene food trays | Refuse bin |
| Plastic toys | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Pyrex glass dishes | Refuse bin or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Reading glasses | Charity shops |
| Rigid plastic | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Shoes | Recycling centre, Caxton Way or recycling banks and charity shops |
| Shredded paper | Blue container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Soil (including conditioner) | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Steel cans | Black container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Straw | Brown bin |
| Sweet wrappers | Refuse bin |
| Takeaway drink containers | Refuse bin |
| Tape (sticky/sellotape) | Refuse bin |
| Tea bags | Brown bin |
| Textiles (including towels and clean bed sheets) | Recycling centre, Caxton Way or recycling banks and charity shops |
| Toilet roll tubes | Blue container |
| Toner cartridges | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Toothpaste tubes | Refuse bin |
| Treated wood (including fence panels, painted doors, furniture and wicker baskets) | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Tree cuttings | Brown bin |
| Turf | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| TVs and Monitors | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Tyres | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Washing powder boxes (remove plastic handles) | Blue container |
| Weeds | Brown bin |
| White Goods | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Window panes | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Wood | Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Wrapping paper (Plain without glitter, embellishments or gloss) | Blue container |
| Wrapping paper (metallic, glossy, glittery or with other embellishments) | Refuse bin |
| Yellow pages | Blue container or Recycling centre, Caxton Way |
| Yoghurt pots | Black container |
