Basingstoke and Deane: which bins go out tonight?
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What Basingstoke and Deane collects
Mixed recycling or cans
green recycling bin
What goes in:
- Paper including envelopes and magazines
- Cardboard (put larger, flattened boxes next to your recycling bin)
- Drinks cans and food tins
- Plastic bottles including lids - no other plastics
- Aerosol cans (empty) - Aerosols that are not empty must go to the Household Waste Recycling Centre. Empty ones labelled with hazard symbols go in your black/grey waste bin.
What doesn't go in:
- Recycling bins containing items we do not collect may not be emptied.
- Only the items listed above can go in your recycling bin. For everything else please visit our A to Z of waste and recycling for advice on whether items can be recycled, reused, reduced or how to dispose of them correctly.
- Even if it carries a 'can be recycled' message or symbol, do not put mixed plastics like plastic pots, tubs, tray, tubes or cartons into your recycling bin at home. These cannot be processed at Hampshire County Council's recycling sorting facility currently.
- If the wrong items are put into your recycling bin, glass box or food waste caddy we may not collect them.
Source: www.basingstoke.gov.uk
Glass
green glass box
What goes in:
- Clean and empty glass bottles and jars
- Only use a green glass box or red bin supplied by the council, no other containers
- Metal lids can be left on
What doesn't go in:
- Do not fill your green box above the rim as it becomes too heavy to lift and causes spillages so will not be emptied
- Do not put in drinking glasses, light bulbs, Pyrex and other similar items. These must be wrapped up and put in your black/grey waste bin
- Remove corks and put in your black/grey waste bin
Source: www.basingstoke.gov.uk
Food waste
food waste caddy
What goes in:
- vegetables and fruit including peelings, cores and stones
- tea and coffee bags, and coffee grounds
- eggshells
- raw and cooked fish bones and shells
- nuts and shells
- dairy products and cheese
- bread, cakes and pastries
- cooked and uncooked rice, pasta and beans
- wet and dry pet food
- out of date food
- plate scrapings
What doesn't go in:
- any liquids including milk, oils, fats, custard, cream and gravy
- any packaging
- nappies
- healthcare waste
- cat litter, dog poo or other pet waste
- garden waste and cut flowers
- other material that is not food waste
Source: www.basingstoke.gov.uk
Rubbish
rubbish bin
Basingstoke and Deane says: Alternatively, continue to put them in your rubbish bin at home. Squashing , stacking them or filling them with other rubbish will make more space in your rubbish bin until we can collect these from your home.
Source: www.basingstoke.gov.uk
What Basingstoke and Deane says about bin day
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