If you can’t reduce or reuse your rubbish, it may be possible to recycle it. Although recycling creates a certain amount of waste during manufacturing, can use a lot of energy and requires transportation, it does prevent vast amounts of waste that would otherwise result from using virgin/raw materials to create a new product.
Ways to Recycle around the house
Useful recycling tips:
Place a recycling container next to your bin - then ask yourself if what you are throwing away can be recycled.
Squashing cans and plastic bottles helps reduce storage space helping you to recycle more.
Make recycling part of your routine - combine a visit to the supermarket with a trip to your local recycling centre.
Recycle your clothes, books and unwanted gifts at charity shops. Clothes/ textiles can also be recycled through your black box collection.
If you use Brita water filters, you can recycle the filter by making use of the new in store recycling scheme recently launched by BRITA.
Recycling bins are now situated in a range of high street stores such as Robert Dyas, Argos and Cargo and other major retailer collection points will be following soon.
The BRITA branded bins are located next to the existing water filter category in each store. Customers can use these facilities to recycle any BRITA consumer product filter cartridge, including those for the new BRITA water filter taps.
For further information regarding this scheme please contact the BRITACare department on 0844 742 4800 or alternatively visit their website www.brita.co.uk/recycle
Recycle your plastic take away containers - wash them out and reuse as food storage containers.
More ways to Recycle
Don't forget, there are many other ways in which you can recycle:
Make use of your black box kerbside recycling collection. Click here for more information.
You can take even more recyclables to your nearest Household Recycling Centre. Click here to find your nearest Household Recycling Centre, for a full list of materials accepted at the centres click here.
Why not combine a trip to the shops with a visit to one of your local mini recycling sites. To find out where your nearest site is click here.
New! You can now recycle all old household electrical items at any of our Household Recycling Centres.
Recycling Directory
Volunteers and staff at the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust have produced an online recycling directory. This is a guide to the many household items that can be reused and recycled locally and also includes tips for reducing your waste. Click here to access the recycling directory.
If you can’t reduce or reuse your rubbish, it may be possible to recycle it. Although recycling creates a certain amount of waste during manufacturing, can use a lot of energy and requires transportation, it does prevent vast amounts of waste that would otherwise result from using virgin/raw materials to create a new product.
in which you can recycle:
