Simpler Recycling has arrived in Nottinghamshire
Did you know that you can now recycle more items in your recycling bin at home?
From 31 March, new items have been added to your kerbside recycling collections as part of the Government’s Simpler Recycling initiative. This aims to make recycling simpler across the country so that everyone can recycle the same materials to help reduce confusion and ultimately increase recycling rates towards the ambitious target of 65% nationally by 2035.
You can continue to recycle all the items that you could before but we would now like you to put clean aluminium foil such as kitchen foil and foil trays, cartons such as milk and juice, plastic tubes including toothpaste, metal tubes such as tomato puree, and plastic fruit trays such as punnets into your recycling bins at home.
In Nottinghamshire, all items put into your recycling bins end up at Veolia’s Materials Recovery Facility in Mansfield where they are sorted before being delivered to recycling reprocessing facilities to be transformed into new products.
Did you know that when you put a metal tin into your recycling bin, it could go on to be used in car parts and that when you recycle plastic it can be transformed into new packaging?
Being able to recycle more items at home is great news for residents across Nottinghamshire and if you would like to find out more about the changes, our website has all the information that you need about different items.
While you can now recycle more at home, we’re still asking you to never put items such as batteries, vapes and electrical items into your recycling or general waste bins. This is because they cause fires.
If you would like to recycle batteries, vapes or electrical items, please take them to a recycling point or one of our 12 recycling centres across Nottinghamshire.
From 1 April, all 12 of our recycling centres moved to their summer opening hours, meaning that they are open from 8am until 8pm. Our sites are likely to be busy over the Easter break and so we advise visiting during quieter hours which tend to be in the morning or evening, if possible.
