Cooking oil recycling success

Residents recycled 2400 litres of cooking oil last year, generating enough clean energy to power three average-sized homes for about a year.

Used cooking oil can be recycled at the household waste recycling centre in New Inn, and is processed into clean energy. 

Just one litre of used oil can power a TV for three hours, a phone charger for 1000 hours, or provide enough energy to make 240 cups of tea. 

Lots of pots

With lots of residents taking advantage of the weather to do a spot of gardening, we are finding an increasing number of plant and flower pots in the black recycling boxs. Unfortunately we can't recycle this kind of hard plastic - it can either be put out in your wheelie bin, or taken to the household waste recycling centre. We have a full list of what can/can't go in the black box here. 

Broken drinking glasses

Please wrap any broken drinking glasses in newspaper and place them into your skinny wheelie bin so they can be disposed of safely. Crews sort the recycling from the black boxes by hand and although they do wear protective gear, broken glass can still pose a serious risk. 

Remove packaging when recycling food

Please remember to remove any packaging from your food waste before it goes into the brown caddy for recycling. Most food packaging such as plastic containers or paper bags can be put into the black recycling box, while cellophane wrappers and cling film will need to be put into the purple-lidded wheelie bin for disposal.

Personalise waste containers 

Why not personalise your purple-lidded wheelie bins, black recycling boxes, blue cardboard bags and brown food caddies to help prevent them being lost or stolen. Personalising a bin or container with your property number will make them less likely to be stolen, and will help our crews return them to the right location.

Order containers free of charge 

Don't forget that you can have as many recycling containers as you need, free of charge.
Black recycling boxes, blue cardboard bags, kitchen and kerbside food caddies, and green garden waste bins can all be ordered from our website.