Your NEW Recycling Service

Starts Monday www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk • Your NEW service • What you should recycle • Why it’s important • Find out more inside Top tip When your supply of liners is This is your new recycling service which running low, simply tie an unused liner to the handle of the outdoor allows you to recycle a wide range of caddy on your normal collection Top tip day. A new supply of liners will If you do not have standard materials at home. Please use your new be placed inside your caddy wheelie bins, please use recycling provided after it has been emptied supplied and recycling sacks instead

YOUR Recycling Containers

Outdoor Caddy Indoor Caddy Free Liners Blue Bin Brown Bin Green Bin A years supply of biodegradeable food waste liners

Black Box and Textile Red Box

Cardboard and paper Garden waste General waste

All containers to be presented by 6.30am Glass, household batteries, small Mixed , food and electrical items and textiles in bags drinks cartons, cans and foil

The following pages explain what can be recycled and how to use your new service 2 3 The green bin is only for general waste Use the materials. It must not contain any materials 3right bin Red Box that can be recycled (net attached) Top tip containers/food and Your red box will be collected Your red box will be collected at drinks cartons, and cans/foil EVERY WEEK the same time as your food waste caddy and black box

1 Collect and 2 Wash and 3 Flatten your 4 Separately place 5 Stretch the 6 Place your red prepare your squash your plastic food and drinks your plastic containers net over the box box at your normal materials for containers and rinse cartons and and food and drinks and use the red collection point by recycling your cans plastic bottles cartons into one side of tab to affix 6.30am on your the box, and cans and foil collection day. We will into the other - do not collect it every week YES 3 NO 8 Plastic containers Tins, cans and foil 8 Hard or rigid 8 Liquids 4 Butter and margarine tubs 4 Plastic detergent bottles 4 Food and drinks cans plastics such 8 Polystyrene 4 Cling film and other plastic 4 Plastic drinks bottles 4 Clean aluminium foil as toys, basins food wrapping film 4 Plastic fruit and vegetable trays 4 Empty aerosols 4 Food and drinks cartons 4 Plastic meat trays 4 Metal lids Top tip 4 Ice cream tubs 4 Plastic shampoo bottles 4 Sweet and biscuit tins Fill box and secure contents by extending net 4 Plastic bags 4 Plastic take-away tubs over length of box. Use red tab to stretch net over box handle 4 Plastic biscuit and cake trays 4 Yoghurt pots 4 5 The green bin is only for general waste Use the materials. It must not contain any materials 3right bin Food Waste that can be recycled

For all types of food waste Your outdoor food waste caddy will be collected EVERY WEEK Top tip The average household uses between 2 to 3 liners per week

1 Put one of 2 Put all 3 When the 4 Place the 5 Place your outdoor the free liners cooked and liner is almost full, full liner in your caddy at your normal into your indoor uncooked food tie and remove it outdoor caddy collection point by 6.30am caddy waste into your from the indoor on your collection day. We indoor caddy caddy and replace will collect it every week with a new liner YES 3 NO 8 4 Breads, cakes and pastries 4 Pet food - wet and dry 8 Food packaging e.g. cardboard, 4 Eggs - including shells 4 Rice, pasta and beans plastic wrapping, tins Top tip 4 Fish - including bones, skin 4 Tea bags and coffee grounds 8 Garden waste Your outdoor caddy will be and shells 4 Cooking oil, lard and other 8 Glass collected at the same time 4 Fruit and vegetables - cooked fats - cool before transferring 8 Liquids as your black and red boxes and raw, including cores and to your indoor caddy 8 Straw or other animal bedding peelings products 4 Meat - including fat, skin 8 Pet waste

6 and bones 7 The green bin is only Top tip Use the for general waste materials. 3right bin Larger electrical items, including It must not contain any Black Box TV screens and monitors, can materials that can be and white Textile Bags be recycled at your nearest recycled Recycling Centre Glass, household batteries, small electrical items and Your black box and textile bags textiles in bags will be collected EVERY WEEK

1 Collect and 2 Place brown 3 Small electrical 4 Batteries should 5 Place any 6 Place your black box prepare your and green bottles items can be placed be placed in clear clothes, textiles and and textile recycling bag materials for and jars into one on top or alongside plastic bags and put shoes tied in pairs at your normal collection recycling side of your black black box into your black box into the white textile point by 6.30am on your box, and clear recycling bag collection day and we bottles and jars will collect it every week into the other YES 3 NO 8

Glass bottles and jars Small electrical items Clothing, other 8 Broken glass 4 Baby food jars 4 Electric drills and tools textiles and shoes 8 Crockery Top tip 4 Beer bottles 4 Hairdryers 4 Blankets and sheets 8 Drinking glasses Collected at the same 4 Cooking sauce jars 4 Irons 4 Clothing 8 Pillows time as your red box 4 Jam jars 4 Kettles 4 8 Pyrex Shoes (tied in pairs) and food waste caddy 4 Juice bottles 4 Household batteries (bagged) 4 Towels 8 Quilts 4 Wine bottles 4 Radios 4 Trainers (tied in pairs) 8 Sleeping bags 4 Toasters 8 Window/flat glass 8 9 The green bin is only for general waste Use the materials. It must not contain any materials 3right bin Blue Bin that can be recycled Cardboard and paper Your blue bin will be collected EVERY FOUR WEEKS. Check your calendar for details

Top tip If you do not have a blue bin please use the supplied blue recycling sacks instead

1 Prepare your 2 Collect all types 3 Flatten your 4 Place your 5 Place your blue bin materials for of paper cardboard cardboard and at the normal collection recycling paper in your point by 6.30am on blue bin your collection day and we will collect it every four weeks

YES 3 NO 8 Paper Cardboard 8 Food and drink cartons 4 Brochures 4 Newspapers 4 Brown corrugated 8 Padded envelopes 4 Catalogues 4 Office paper cardboard boxes 8 Plastic bags or wrappers 4 Envelopes 4 Wrapping paper 4 Cardboard packaging 8 Polystyrene 4 Leaflets 4 Yellow pages 4 Cereal boxes 8 Packaging contaminated 4 Magazines 4 Toilet roll tubes with food waste

10 11 The green bin is only for general waste Use the materials. It must not contain any materials that 3right bin Brown Bin can be recycled For all types of garden waste Your brown bin will be collected EVERY FOUR WEEKS. Check your calendar for details Top tip If you do not have a brown bin please use the supplied biodegradable sacks for your garden waste instead

1 Collect your 2 We cannot 3 Twigs and 4 Place these 5 Place your brown bin garden waste take soil or stones, small branches materials in your at your normal collection only place plant should be cut to bin point by 6.30am on your material in your lengths that fit collection day and we will bin in your bin collect it every four weeks 3 8 YES NO Top tip All types of Garden Waste 8 No soil or stones Take your excess garden 4 Flowers and plants 4 Prunings waste to your nearest 4 Grass cuttings 4 Sawdust Seasonal Collection Your brown bin is collected from March Recycling Centre where it 4 Hedge trimmings 4 Cut flowers will be recycled, and you 4 4 to November. Leaves Twigs and small branches can collect your free 4 Weeds Top tip Compost To Go at the Remember to present your black box same time on the same day as your brown bin 12 13 Transforming East Ayrshire Green Bin Your enhanced recycling service is part of East Ayrshire General waste for Council’s Transformation Strategy for waste which allows materials that cannot be recycled you to recycle a wide range of materials at home. When fully introduced across East Ayrshire (by Autumn 2014) there will be very little waste that cannot be recycled Your green bin will be collected EVERY TWO WEEKS. from home. Check your calendar for dates Therefore, from April 2015, East Ayrshire Council will introduce an extended collection service for your general , which means that your green bin will no longer be collected every two weeks. Details to follow during 2014/15

We’re here to help 1 Please collect 2 Place your green 3 We will collect your materials that bin at your normal it every two weeks on • If you receive a pull-out service at the moment this will cannot be recycled collection point by your collection day continue and place in the 6.30am • Additional recycling containers are available free of green bin charge Top tip • Excess recycling can be presented on your usual collection day, e.g. flatten large cardboard and place If you do not have a green bin please use the supplied lilac next to blue bin, bag mixed plastics and place next to sacks instead The green bin red box etc. Use the must not contain any 3right bin • You can collect your free Compost To Go at your materials that can be recycled local recycling centre 14 15 What happens to the materials I recycle?

The materials we collect from your recycling containers and bags are taken to special processing plants where they are recycled and turned into valuable new resources.

Your food waste is taken to a special processing plant where it is recycled and turned into valuable resources such as agricultural fertiliser and energy.

Waste Management Services, Western Road Depot, Western Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 1LL Tel: 01563 554033 Email: [email protected]

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