Student recycle leaflet 2013-14

Moving out?

Don’t forget to reduce, reuse and recycle! Don’t get charged for not leaving your property how you found it.

• Take large items of furniture and large electrical items to your Recycling Centre.

• Donate unwanted items to local charities • Donate any non-perishable food to www.foodbank.org • SOFA project www.sofaproject.org.uk and the Genesis Furniture Project www.genesistrust.org.uk may collect good quality items from you for free.

• Give away or find items for free on www.uk.freecycle.org • We can provide a collection service for large items (at a cost) • Be considerate to your neighbours and don’t leave loads of rubbish at the end of term – plan ahead and make full use of your weekly recycling collections before you leave.

Please take your student ID card to show site staff when you visit, to prove you are a resident. You will not be allowed on site without proof.

Find out more

University students living off campus and ru g n i l c y bbi c e r sh r c ou

Y

Your local Recycling Centre is at Midland Road, Bath, BA1 3AT (by Argos on the Upper Bristol Road)

Cooperative Supermarket

Ke y

ns

ha

m

Ashmead Road

World’s En

B

d Lane yp To find out your collection day, order any free recycling To Bristol ass container, report a missed A4 collection or for more information please see our website or contact Council Connect: To Keynsham To Saltford 01225 39 40 41 SMS 07797 806545 councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk www.bathnes.gov.uk/wasteservices

Last year elped students h und aro us recycle r 46% of ou rubbish

Welton Hollow

Like us on facebook for tipsWheeler’s to reduce your Hill waste and recycle more.

Please visit www.facebook.com/recycleforbathnes or scan our code with a smart phone.

If you need this leaflet in large print, Braille, audio format or your own language please contact Council Connect.

Get the free mobile app at

Details correct at time of printing 9/2013 http:/ / gettag.mobi

studentRecycleA5_2013-14AW.indd 1-3

Argos

s tion lec ol

Take your garden waste to your local Recycling Centre (see back page) or use our chargeable fortnightly garden waste collection. See our website to find out more.

We have three Recycling Centres where you can take larger unwanted or broken household items or extra recycling or rubbish.

Pixash Lane

Clearing up your garden?

Recycling Centres

Braodmead Lane

ect for l l o c e w g n i h t every ned r u t r o d e s u e r recycling is ew things into n

100%

Whatever you do, wherever you live, recycle!

09/09/2013 14:55

Living in private accommodation?

Your collection day is: Please use the Council’s free recycling and rubbish service including:

Your weekly green box recycling collection • Please wash and squash cans, plastic packaging and foil and wash glass bottles and jars. It is fine to leave the labels on.

• Please separate the different kinds of materials in your box to help us sort safely.

Your weekly food waste recycling collection

• Foil • Paper and greetings cards • Clothes and shoes • Food and drink cans and • Batteries • Car batteries aerosols • Used engine oil • Household plastic packaging (bottles, pots, • Spectacles • Mobile telephones tubs and trays) • Ink and toner cartridges • Glass bottles and jars

No thanks: • Any black plastic trays and bags • Plastic film and bags • Polystyrene

If you need new, free containers get in touch (see back page)!

Your weekly small electrical items collection Please put your small electrical items into an untied

carrier bag next to your green box on your collection day.

Yes please: • Any small electrical item that has a plug or takes batteries such as a hairdryer, toaster, electric toothbrush (please make sure it can fit into an average sized plastic carrier bag).

No thanks:

Yes please:

Yes please:

studentRecycleA5_2013-14AW.indd 4-6

It is import your food w ant to use stop anima aste bin to ls a attacking ynd birds rubbish for our food Please use your kitchen caddy and larger outside food waste bin to recycle all your cooked and uncooked food waste. Your food waste will be composted and used on agricultural land.

• Line your kitchen caddy with a compostable liner (bag) or newspaper.

• Empty your caddy into your food waste bin before it gets too full, and rinse both bins regularly to keep them clean.

• Make sure you keep your outside food waste bin locked by pulling the handle forward so it is secure from animals and birds.

• Any large electrical items such as TVs, PC monitors, or fridges.

Your weekly rubbish collection • Please use only compostable liners with this seedling logo as these will break • Plastic bags down to make compost.

• Packaging of any sort • You can buy 5 litre compostable liners from local • Liquids or cooking oils shops and supermarkets - view a list of stockists www.bathnes.gov.uk/foodwaste Online offers are often the cheapest, visit www.getcomposting.com

No thanks:

Your weekly cardboard recycling collection

Yes please: • Cardboard • Food and drink cartons (Tetra Paks) • Brown paper

No thanks: • Plastic, sticky tape and polystyrene.

All cardboard must be flattened and folded or cut so fits into your blue bag (no bigger than 45cm square) and onto our vehicles. Please wash and squash cartons.

Use this collection only for items you can’t recycle.

• Use black sacks or carrier bags (tied). You can store these in a dustbin • Please don’t overfill your sacks so we can lift them without splitting • Please wrap anything sharp like broken glass in plenty of newspaper.

Putting your rubbish and recycling out for collection • We collect your recycling and rubbish on the same day of the week but with different vehicles.

• All collections are weekly except garden waste which is fortnightly.

• Please put your containers out by 7am on your collection day or after 8pm the previous evening, at the front edge of your home, where they can be seen easily by our crews.

• Please bring containers back in as soon as you can after emptying, on the same day.

• We collect as normal on all bank holidays except over Christmas and New Year.

• You can be fined for leaving rubbish and/or recycling out at the wrong time or place.

09/09/2013 14:55