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Paper and Carboard

Bring Banks : Find your nearest bring bank site

Brochures and leaflets

Brochures and Leaflets

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres: These materials can be recycled at either centre


Cardboard boxes

Cardboard Boxes

Cardboard boxes make ideal storage containers. Please ensure that all cardboard boxes are flattened, if you are going to recycle them.

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre


Cardboard food packaging

Cardboard Food Packaging

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Directories

Directories

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Egg boxes

Egg Boxes

You can use egg boxes in the garden to plant seeds in.

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats : These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Envelopes

Envelopes

You can reuse your envelopes again by placing a white sticker over your address.

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats : These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Juice/milk and other waxy cartons

Juice/Milk and other waxy cartons

Please dispose of in your normal household waste.


Junk mail

Junk Mail

Junk Mail - you can stop all that unwanted mail arriving through your letterbox by registering with the Mailing Preference Service, who will arrange for your details to be taken off the mailing lists of companies sending unsolicited mail. Register on 020 7291 3310 or visit the Mail Preference Services website External linkwww.mpsonline.org.uk

In the meantime you can recycle all junk mail using the below services:

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Magazines

Magazines can be donated to local doctor’s surgeries, hospital waiting rooms etc.

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres: These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Newspapers

Newspapers

You can use a few sheets of newspaper to line your kitchen caddy or to line the bottom of your brown bin.

Newspaper can also be used to line cat litter trays, rabbit hutches, hamster cages etc.

Kerbside : These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats : These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Shredded paper

Shredded Paper

Plain shredded paper makes ideal pet bedding.

Kerbside: These materials can be placed in your green box.
Flats: These materials can be placed in the wheelie bin with the blue lid or in the blue euro bin.
Reuse and Recycling Centres : These materials can be recycled at either centre.


Tetra-packs

Tetra Packs

Please dispose of in your normal household waste.


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