Guide to St Nicks Recycling
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- What to put in your box?
- What NOT to put in your box?
- Collection days
- FAQs
Please help our team do a good job by following our guide to recycling. They will much appreciate it and it will lead to a better quality of recycled materials. If you would like to help more by displaying a poster in your window with collection dates on or by talking to new neighbours, please see if you’d like to become our Recycling Champion.
What to put in your box?
Please keep your recycling box or basket clean and tidy, and separate the different recyclable materials into old carrier bags. Clean recycling materials lead to a higher quality of the end product and make the process more efficient. Please put your recycling container out by 9am on the collection day and leave until it gets collected.
In all our areas we collect the following:
- METAL: food & drinks cans, empty aerosols, clean aluminium foil. Please rinse these out and flatten (if possible).
- GLASS: all glass bottles and jars. Please rinse out, especially food jars.
- PAPER: newspapers, magazines, catalogues, junk mail, windowless envelopes (please tear them out), phone directories and scrap paper. Please remove all plastic wrapping and note that we do not collect cardboard.
In some of our areas we also collect the following materials. If you are not sure whether we collect these from where you live, please contac us.
- GARDEN WASTE: grass clippings, dry leaves etc. Please leave in a bag next to the box.
- PLASTIC BOTTLES: milk, fizzy drinks, water, shampoo, detergent etc. Please remove tops, rinse out and flatten (essential).
What NOT to put in your box?
Although some of the following materials may seem to fit into the type of materials we collect, unfortunately we cannot do so either because we couldn't sell them on or because of not having enough capacity to do so. Please do not include the following in your kerbside recycling:
- BROKEN GLASS, window glass, drinking glasses, light bulbs, mirror glass, pyrex: Fluorescent tubes can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Sites.
- CARDBOARD: Can be composted (contact York Rotters for free advice) or taken to York’s three Household Waste Recycling Sites.
- DOG FAECES: They can be composted in Pet Waste Converters.
- DRINKS CARTONS (tetra-pack): These can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Sites plus some supermarkets.
- INVASIVE WEEDS (e.g. ragwort, japanese knotweed): If we collect garden waste from you, please do not include these as they could spread through compost. It's best to either burn them when they are dry or landfill.
- KITCHEN WASTE: Kitchen waste currently cannot be collected in York because of animal by-products legislation which requires a special licence for it. It can easily be composted though - contact York Rotters for free composting advice.
- PLATICS OTHER THAN BOTTLES (e.g. plastic food wrapping, trays, crisp packets,toys, margarine or yoghurt tubs): If we collect plastic bottles from your area, please do not include any other plastics. Some of these could in theory be recycled but currently not in York. Best reuse, otherwise landfill.
Collection Days
Please put your recycling container out by 9am on the collection day and leave until it gets collected. Collections in Aldwark, Bishophill, Heslington Road, Holmefield, Lawrence Street and Tang Hall areas are done weekly. We collect fortnightly from Clementhorpe, South Bank and St Peter's Quarter areas. Please look for your street in our list (a 41kB PDF file) to see which day of the week we collect from you.
FAQs
- Do you need a new recycling box? If your box has gone missing, let us know and we will deliver one on the next collection day.
- Do you need a hand? If you are elderly or disabled, we can provide assistance on collection day. Please contact us.
- Do you not have enough to fill the box? Every kilo counts. No matter how little waste you produce, it's better recycled than landfilled.
- Do you have too much? Simply put extra materials in separate untied bags and place them on top of your box, we will collect them.
- Do you not have space for the box in your house/ flat? We can provide you with a smaller basket.
- Do you want to help promote our service? Little time and effort are needed. Please see if you would like to become one of our Recycling Champions.