 About your new recycling (blue) bag
Your new recycling (blue) bag will be delivered to all households in Sandwell between 26 August and 12 September.
Watch this video to find out interesting facts about your recycling (blue) bag.
For more information about the changes to bin collections from 15 September visit our website
Helpful tips for separating waste
 Make more space in your bins by separating you waste correctly:
Create a system:
- Start thinking how you separate and store recycling in your home before your bin collections
- Keep a bag or box next to your rubbish bin as a reminder to recycle
- Have one bag or box for paper and cardboard and another for plastics, cans and glass – no need to sort through rubbish when it’s time to put your bins out
Sign up for free food waste collections
 You can also make more room in your bins by signing up to our free weekly food waste collection service. Food waste can be recycled and turned into energy or to make fertiliser.
Sign up for free food waste collections and don’t forget to let us know if you need a new brown food waste bin and a small grey caddy for your kitchen.
Sandwell Herald
There’s lots of useful information about the upcoming changes to bin collections in the summer edition of the Sandwell Herald, which was distributed last week.
You can download your copy now.
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Recycling items correctly is important but if we can reuse items and reduce the amount we throw away this is even better for the environment and it might save us money.
Each year approx £140 million worth of clothing is either sent for incineration or to landfill.
If you have items that you no longer wear but have some life left in them, why not think about selling them online?
If you don’t want to sell your items, think about donating to charity shops or taking to textile recycling banks, you can find these across the borough and at our Household Recycling Centre (Tip) on Shidas Lane, Oldbury.
Old fabric can also but cut up and used around the house for cleaning.
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