Guide to St Nicks Recycling
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- What to put in your recycling container?
- 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 recycling container?
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 8am on the collection day and leave until it gets collected.
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.
- PLASTIC BOTTLES: milk, fizzy drinks, water, shampoo, detergent etc. Please remove tops, rinse out and flatten (essential).
- CARDBOARD: all clean card (not coated in plastic or contaminated with food) such as cereal boxes, egg boxes, packing boxes. Please FLATTEN all boxes. Cardboard sheets larger than 80 x 150cm (2’6” x 5’) will only be collected if they are flattened and secured with tape or string.
- GARDEN WASTE: grass clippings, dry leaves etc. Please leave in a bag next to the box.
What NOT to put in your recycling container?
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.
- 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 8am on the collection day and leave until it gets collected. Between September 2010 and January 2011 we will be gradually dropping our service in areas outside of the city centre and picking up most of the area within the city walls. While these changes take place, please contact our Recycling Team for up-to-date shedules. After January we'll include the list of our collection dates on this page.
FAQs
- Do you need a new recycling box/ bags? If your recycling container has gone missing (or you've run out of recycling bags - applicable to certain city centre properties only), 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 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.