Your Waste

We produce around 225,000 tonnes of household rubbish every year in Wiltshire.

That's the equivalent of each household throwing away over a tonne of waste every year - around the weight of a small car.

Wiltshire currently recycles over 38% of household waste (March 2007).

	Newspaper is recycled back into newsprint: yesterday's newspapers become tomorrow's front pages more...
	You can recycle all of your cardboard at your nearest Recycling centre more...
	Aluminium cans and foil are recycled over and over again, without loss of quality more...
	Good quality clothes may go to charity shops in this country, or are sent over to Africa to be used again more...
	You can recycle glass at your nearest Recycling Centre or in your kerbside black box more...
	In 2005/06 Wiltshire recycled over 600 tonnes of plastic such as milk, fizzy drinks and shampoo bottles, margarine containers and ice cream tubs more...
	You can take your garden waste to your nearest Household Recycling Centre or sign up for a garden waste collection more...
	Any wood, glass, soil and rubble can be taken to your nearest Household Recycling Centre more...
	Under new WEEE legislation, all electrical waste must be disposed of in a safe manner more...
	Every year, the average dustbin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television more...